Yorks union fight
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Drivers, all members of the TGWU, took this action after a year's frustrated efforts to get management to recognise the union.
The strike began on 8 November when three drivers were sacked after refusing to carry out extra deliveries brought about by the then impending bakers' strike.
After their dismissal, six other delivery men came out in support responding to threats by management.
Though management recognises the . Bakers Union, they refuse to recognise the TGWU, which the drivers feel is the appropriate union for them.
Since the strike began, the strikers have maintained a 5.30 a.m. to midnight picket at the bakery.
They have also had some success in getting flour blacked and have stopped regular supplies of fuel from getting in to the bakery.
As yet the strike has not been made official by the TGWU. picket to form, resorted to vicous attacks on pickets to enforce their restrictions of six per restaurant.
However, by arresting the bewildered Durkin along with 14 other pickets, the ruling class has arrogantly thrown down a challenge that parallels the arrest of Scargill and Audrey Durkin only one delegation out of 1,600 TGWU branches for Friday's action.
Shattered However, the large turnout of over 400 on Friday evening including a delegation of 31 from Sussex University, shattered their hopes that the Day of Picketing would be a dismal failure.
Moreover with the arrest of à leading Stalinist it is now. difficult for the Regional leadership to dissociate the TGWU from Friday's picket.
Leading members of the labour movement have suffered the consequences of Staden's betrayal in full view of wide layers of workers and in the glare of the national media.
The crisis that is now opening up in the Regional leadership of the TGWU and implicating the Communist Party is reflected in the announcement that Ron Todd is returning to conduct the strike.
The strike committee can draw strength from Friday's action in the knowledge that Todd's reappearance signals the inability of the Regional leader-