Star blackleg
Socialist Press1980 1980-06-18Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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Among the list of sponsors of the Morning Star's 50th Anniversary festival at Alexandra Palace was one John Baldwin OBE -general secretary of the construction section of the. AUEW.
Baldwin's most recent claim to notoriety was of course his well publicised ride with a bus full of scabs through the GMWU picket line at the Isle of Grain power station.
The Morning Star has of course politely held back from any condemnation of this blacklegging by one of its esteemed sponsors.
In the run-up to next month's NUM conference in Eastbourne it is clear that miners face not only the need to defend their wages and living standards, but also a growing threat to Perhaps this is also because Stalinist George Guy, leader of the sheet metal workers on the by his members on the same six month struggle by GMWU laggers.
Embarrassing
And perhaps it is also because a group of CP members on the Grain site continue to cross the picket line each day to clock in for work! • While the Communist Party, in time-honoured Stalinist fashion, seeks to suppress such embarrassing facts, the contined plunging sales of the Morning Star suggest that they are fooling less people than ever before.
While Gormley, a part-time company director, clearly iden tifies with the capitalist class in wishing to extract profit from the labour of his members, the defence of jobs and wages requires a fundamentally different approach.