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The Garners Strike Committee has taken a brave stand in defiance of moves by TGWU officials to stab their struggle in the back.

At a strike committee meeting last Monday the committee decided to go ahead with arrangements for the Day of Action called for May 5 and the TGWU delegate conferenci called for June 16.

They went on to demanc that the TGWU's massive London Regional Committer give official support to these events.

These initiatives have cu1 across Regional Committe moves to declare at their next meeting that the strikers want to call off the 15-month struggle Garners pickets union recognition.

The Garners strike has severely embarassed Regional TGWU officials by highlighting their abject refusal to use the colossal strength of the London Region's 500,000 membership to crush tin-pot employer Cyril Margolis into submission through a campaign of blacking and mass picketing.

Every attempt to break through to mobilise support from factories, docks and other TGWU-organised workplaces in the London area has been beset by sabotage and inaction by full time officials who would sooner see the strike defeated than their bureaucratic control challenged.

The strike committee however has shown once again that it is not prepared to sit meekly and wait for the final stab in the back from Regional Secretary Staden and "Organiser" Les Shorter.

All militants within the TGWU must fight for support to the 16 June delegate conference and every supporter of this heroic struggle for basic union rights should mobilise now for the May 5 Day of Action.

Resolutions, donations and messages of support should be forwarded to the strike committee at 12/13, Henrietta Street, London WC1.

Demands that the Region 1 Committée support and build for the delegate conference must be forwarded to the Regional Committee.