Full Support to Garners 24 Day Day of Action!
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Address Send NW5 decisive turning point for the 14-month long struggle.
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weekend's demonstration, carry responsibility for starving this recognition strike of vital material aid and support. 10 ISSUES POST FREE!
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Their bureaucratic aim of avoiding the all-out confrontation necessary to win has reduced the strikers to only a section of the original 84.
Despite an original £2,000 donation from the TGWU and a regular flow of money into the official strike fund, oniy a trickle of cash gets through to the strikers on the picket lines.
The last 'major' hand-out from the union was a £38 'Christmas bonus'!
At the same time the policy of agreement with the police limitation of the pickets to six per restaurant continues to open the door to harrassment and intimidation by police and scab thugs.
'Unofficial'
the TGWU Regional ttee minutes for January 'unofficial' elements who want to win the for their refusal to bow to the treacherous idea that:
"these days of action should be kept orderly with only the agreed numbers at each establishment.
Naturaily such brazen sabotage of the struggle is then covered with the classical accusation that it is the union rank and file which has let the strikers down:
... the rank and file had not given the support expected.
How these bureaucrats could have expected support while continuously sabotaging circulars and even denying strikers use of telephones at one stage is hard to imagine.
Despite all this the strikers remain determined to win.
An appeal was made at the Stalinist-dominated LCDTU last weekend (although strikers were prevented from distributing leaflets inside the hall), and a response has been found in many parts of the country. start to action.
regular effective remains central to of the dispute.
be left there. strikers! smith Coop branch of USDAW resolved to donate £50. • Visits were planned for this week to Heathrow airport and other workplaces in London.
Strikers also lobbied the Emergency and General Purposes Committee of the London TGWU on Tuesday to demand an end to talk and a finance and picketing the winning Yet in the face of bureaucratic sabotage matters cannot From the March 24 Day of Action the call must go out for another, even larger mass event to be fixed immediately to maintain the momentum of This must be combined with the call of the Strike Committee for a national delegate conference of the TGWU to organise the victory of the strike.
At such a conference the betrayals of the leaders must be brought to the attention of the entire membership and the action vital to win prepared.
Victory to the Garners
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