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Dartmou London! 84 workers from Garners Steak Houses were sacked for demanding recognition of their union, the TGWU.

To commemorate this year on strike for a basic right, the strike committee has called for a day of picketing on Saturday 27 January.

The Greater London Association of Trades Councils has been asked to cover their usual restaurants and all trade unionists are called on to assemble at the Oxford Street branch at 12 noon or at the Haymarket at 6 p.m.

A massive turnout on this day is essential to keep up the pressure on the owner Margolis and on the WOLLE • EAGUE _ANIAIITAN Thing!

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Many of these have expressed to the pickets their wish to be represented by the union.

Over the last week four people have been sacked and have gone to the union office to express their willingness to fight alongside the strikers.

The anniversary picket is not of course a celebration.

Scandal

It is a scandal that the TGWU Region 1 leadership has not seen fit to win this strike months ago.

It rests in their hands. Although Sid Staden, Stalinist secretary of Region 1 is reported in the Morning Star as saying that it is the union, through the strike committee, which is running the strike, the Regional issues .10 issues .£2.20 issues .25.50 issues :10.00 implement any of the strike committee's demands.

Strike pay

When the strike committee called for payment to the strikers of £36 per week, to be raised if necessary by a levy, the Region gave £6, a handout of £10 and at Christmas the pay was put up to £12 "as long as the money lasts"

Then officials turned on the strikers and demanded to know why only half had been able to stick out for a year!

When the strike committee called for all trade groups to adopt a restaurant to picket once a week plus mass pickets on a Saturday, Staden made a secret agreement with the police to limit pickets to six.

Arrested

Trade unionists have been arrested as a result, including Brent Trades Council. President Tom Durkin (in whose defence a picket is being mounted at Bow Street court at 10 am on 10 January).

Staden now claims TGWU members will not picket Garners since they are afraid of getting arrested!

Nor has the strike committee's call for blacking of all supplies been taken up decisively.

Meanwhile Garners' boss Margolis totters on with the assistance of major hotel owners and is even opening a new restaurant in Upper Regent Street on 15 January.

The recent increase in violence reflects the desperation of the management and the scabs.

But if any worker thinks that Margolis will reward him for his slavishness he is in for a nasty shock.

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