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While the past week has in the local (Henrietta st) Nottinghamshire NUM and other local trade unions failed to materialise.

The sacked journalists are spending their time producing a professional looking paper-the Nottingham News-and are not maintaining a permanent picket on the building.

The News is specifically not a labour movement paper, and indeed only decided to drop pin-up pictures from its page 3 after a boll of its readers (which knocks on the head the idea of a public "demand' for sexism).

The picket was joined by 'left' Labour MP. Dennis Skinner, and Labour MP for Nottingham West, Michael English.

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Among those arrested was Ron Knowles, editor of After weeks of delaying tactics the TGWU Region 1 has finally declared official backing for the March 24 Day of Action proposed by the Garners Strike Committee.

But at the time of going to press the elementary task of preparing adequate publicity has still not been carried out.

While the past seen new violence-with a scab manager at the Haymarket Garners, branch attacking picket-the union leaders continue to use every method possible to rid themselves of the embarrassment of this 13month long strike.

No telephones Despite promises, strikers do not even have adequate access to use of a telephone in the local (Henrietta St) all readers-and particularly, those in the TGWU to answer these manoeuvres with the biggest possible mobilisation for March 24:

The union leaders would no doubt prefer a failure.

Instead bureaucrats like Ron Todd who is now scheduled as a speaker on the Day of Action, must be faced with a resounding call for the immediate implementation of the policies of the strike committee.

*ror decent sirıke pay. *For decent strike pay winning of the strike.

AS WE GO TO PRESS, the Socialist Press Fund to help with the payment of fines inflicted upon WSL members on the Garners Picket line has produced £113.40. We thank those who have donated so far, but we must point out that the fimes now total £455 - with 3 cases still pending. Send any further donations to Garners Fines Fund, c/o Socialist Press.

In the end the workers conceded everythingincluding their jobs!

When the management say they are short of money the unions must demand that their books are opened.

This does not just mean the few pages of their books that they show to the JPCC (Joint Participation Consultative Committee) in order to prove what hard times they are having, but all of their books including those of the parent company, Lucas.

In this way the workers will be able to see for themselves what the long-term plans for the site are and on that basis work out the best way to protect the jobs.

Acceptance of the bosses' figures and viability arguments not only means job losses row but also a paltry wage rise in the summer as Leyland's workforce found recently.

No redundancies In the meantime manning levels must be defended in every section. No jobs must be lost through redundancies OI wastage.

If work is short it should be shared out among the workforce with no loss of pay.

Redundancies will not be fought by allowing the plant to be run down but by vigorously defending all existing jobs.