Garners action day-March 24
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Support is building up throughout the labour movement for the Garners strikers who have called for a Day of Action on 24 March in solidarity with their marathon struggle for union recognition.
A £30 donation arrived this week from as far afield as Dunlop, Liverpool. Dunlop workers themselves face a bitter fight against redundancies.
Support is also building on the Liverpool docks.
Action This weekend a representative from the strike committee went to address the Stalinist-dominated LCDTU Conference to demand action to back up their verbal declarations of solidarity.
On Tuesday the Joint Shop Stewards Committee of the Fords Dagenham engine plant (who made a substantial financial donation earlier in the strike) received another representative from the strike committee appealing for support.
Socialist Press has continually pointed to the fact that the bureaucracy of the TGWU Region 1 wants the Day of Action on 24 February to be a failure.
Late material
Their sabotage is still reflected in the extremely late appearance of any material declaring official backing.
Indeed, although 700 letters have now gone out to individuals, many union branches will not be able to discuss March 24 in time to mobilise support.
Mobilise!
reader. Mobilise for the Day of Action! Support the demands of the strike committee for adequate strike pay, a serious mobilisation on the picket lines, fullblacking and the national TGWU Conference to plan the victory of the strike. We appeal again to every CAPITAL An illuminating example of the open 'pro-scab' role of the police at Garners came on Friday night.
A particularly naive constable, who clearly still believed his job was to preserve the law, rather than crush the working class, responded to pickets' complaints against a scab waiter who had seized placards from the picket line.
He arrested the man, but later gave an embarrassed report to pickets:
"They're letting him My superiors copped out. I can't understand it, it's sickening. They are always keen enough to arrest pickets. • Pickets did however learn the scab's name and address. It is Mr. Razon Bonfas, 133, Cambridge Street, Victoria, SWI.
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