Nottingham: step up the fight!
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The June 16 picket however, can only be of value in the long running struggle for the rein. statement of 28 sacked journalists and print union recognition if it is followed up by a programme of official strike action.
So far there is no indication of whether and when the NUJ leadership will implement the decision of the April Conference to call a one-day solidarity strike throughout the Newspaper Society.
A meeting of the special Nottingham subcommittee of the TUC's Printing Industries Committee is to be hald as we go to press. NUJ bureaucrats, reluctant as ever to give a lead to their members, will be looking for support from the NGA and SLADE.
Should this support be forth. coming, the one-day action would produce a shutdown of Newspaper Society evening papers and thus bring fresh pressure to bear on the anti-union T. Bailey management.
Only this kind of actionwhich must be extended beyond a one of taken protest-can ofter the hope of victory in this crucial dispute.
The danger is however, that Nottingham: joumalists will become increasingly reliant on their suppossally "alternative" paper, the Nottingham News, us a subetitute for trade union action to secure reinstatament.
Thore is even discussion and and investigation into the pros. pacts of launching the News as a co-operative.
Coming at a time of the collapse of the KME co. operative on Merseyside and not long after the bitter lessons of the Scottish Daily Express, such a venture must be rejected not only as impractical but as a total diversion from the central fight for trade union rights at the Evening Post.
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