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The bitter struggle for reinstatement of sacked shop stewards and workers and for union recognition at the Adwest Engineering plant in Reading continues despite police attacks on picket lines and lack of official support from the TGWU. A mass picket is to be held on Monday August 11 - all Socialist Press supporters are urged attend, and to fight in their union branches for urgentlyneeded donations to the strike fund: cheques should be made out to J.Dhoot, and sent to Danny Broderick, 46,. MEMBERS of the Music¡ans' Union voted by 5-1 to end their two-month strike and accept a sell-out deal with the BBC which agrees to the axing of three of the original six threatened orchestras.

While in London musicians declared themselves pleased with the outcome -which will save the BBC no money at all - Scottish union members were fuming at the sell-out.

Yet after two months of isolated action, many members no doubt saw the 'compromise' as the best deal that could be achieved.

It is obvious that as further cuts are planned, all the media unions must unite in common action to prevent still more wholesale cuts in jobs. UNION DUES The stubborn scabbing of the AUEW Construction Section in the Isle of Grain laggers' dispute continues to block even the efforts of the TUC to railroad through a ings.

The TUC has threatened to suspend those unions that refuse to accept the 'peace' formula.

But the AUEW continues to stand firm against the removal of the blackleg non-GWU laggers from lagging work to other jobs on the Isle of Grain site.

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ARE BEING SYSTEMATICALLY BEATEN ARE IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT TRISH