Support Garners May 5 Action Day
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As the Garners union recognition strike drags on through its fifteenth month the leaders of the TGWU Region 1 have moved more openly than ever to the selling out of the struggle.
This week the Strike Committee's demands for a May 5 Day of Action and a national delegate conference of the TGWU on the strike were explicitly rejected by the The pitiful and treacherous excuse of 'needing to work for the General Election' now stands as the small coin of every Labour faker who wishes to sabotage the fight for basic rights.
At the Stalinist dominated Greater London Association of Trades Councils on Saturday, the chairman, Coles, excused a future sell-out by saying:
''If the T&G is looking for an excuse to call off the dispute the shouters and hecklers (at the Hyde Park meeting on 24 March) gave them a good excuse."
He followed up with classical witch-hunting:
"We are well aware of certain groups in the support committee who have a political axe to grind"'.
The Strike Committee, despite the decision of the Regional Committee decided last Monday to proceed with a further Day of Action on May 5 and a TGWU delegate conference on June 16.
The campaign for the Day of Action and the Conference and other initiatives which draw attention to the role of the. TGWU's traitors should commence immediately.
The task of every TGWU Branch must now be to rally. round the Garners strike at this critical moment.
TGWU Branches should demand that the Regional Committee reverse its decision not to back the Day of Action and Delegate Conference.
*Support the May 5 Day Action.
"Support the June
TGWU Delegate Conference.
Further information fri the Garners Strike Committ 12/13, Henrietta Stroot, Lond WC1.