Mass picket backs ten week strike

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Published by Fotrose Ltd. for the Workers Socialist League, 31, D Printed by Anvil Printers Ltd (TU) London. Registered as a newsr Pickets inform a Following the lead given by Garners and Sandersons strikers, over 50 trade unionists and students turned out on Monday in response to the House of Holland strike committee's appeal for a mass picket of the company's warehouse.

Pickets had to endure extreme provocation and actual physical violence in a number of sharp confrontations with company scabs, which resulted in the arrest of three pickets.

Despite this the day ended with the balance very strongly in favour of the strikers, who were greatly boosted by the overall success of their first call for mass support on the picket scab of the facts of the strike lines.

The TGWU's two full-time officials, competing to outdo each other in suffocating the strike, appeared late on. Their main contribution was to ensure access for a TGWU-driven waggonload of materials!

Blacking of House of Holland goods in the ports (nearly all their material is imported) remains the key demand.

TGWU branches should insist this be implemented immediately as well as raising badly needed funds.

Donations and details of next mass picket from House of Holland Strike Committee, 15, Plowden Close, Aston-Le-Walls, Daventry, Northants.

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