Notts picket

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"He asked all TGWU branches to pass this resolution and will send a copy to the TUC. This resolution has seven points:

"This branch supports the Garners strike and calls on the meet "But London in.

Wing for us. it is not just outside that support is coming "For example, when ! got back to London on Friday in the afternoon I collected £40 at Sacked Nottingham NUJ strikers, still on the streets a month after the NUJ pay strike finished must look to some real support from the union to win their jobs back.

FoC Robin Andersonwithout any detectable note of irony-told the Morning Star last week:

•What management ended up with by not taking us back is 27 full time union officials prosecuting the dispute and selling what is proving to be a pretty successful paper."

By launching their own paper (The News) the sacked journalists are keeping up their morale and irritating the Nottingham Post management (Brian Clough has refused to speak to the Post).

But the journalists are not a single step closer to winning back their jobs.

The management of the Nottingham Evening Post is still in the Newspaper Society and managing director, Christopher PoleCarew, is chairman of the NS new technology sub committee.

Only a series of strikes throughout the Newspaper Society will therefore get the journalists reinstated. • This policy is opposed by the NUJ leadership. who instead look to their big brothers in the print union bureaucracies, who have refused to offer any tangible action in support.

, But a mass picket has been called for March 3 which could be used to make a turn in the dispute.

Nottingham miners have pledged support for the picket and journalists from all over the country will send delegations.

This picket should be supported to the full and used to call for supporting strikes in the Newspaper Society field.

These strikes will be harder to call now than it would have proved to keep the national strike solid until Nottingham journalists were reinstated.

But there is still massive support among NUJ members for the Nottingham journalists.

Support the mass picket!

Call strike action now!

ATHEN NONE WAS FOR A PARTY, THEN ALL WERE FOR THE STATE; D'YOU THINK THEN THE GREAT MAN HELPED THE POORI WE CAN HOLD AND THE POOR MAN LOVED THE GREAT... THEM, LEN? 'COURSE! THERE'S ONLY/A FEW OF THE BUGGERS! ... WITH WEEPING AND WITH LAUGHTER STILL IS THE STORY TOLD, HOW WELL HORATIUS KEPT THE BRIDGE IN THE BRAVE DAYS OF OLD.

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