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Donations fund should D. Broderick Road, Readi and Postal Ori made payable Adwest strikers 19 weeks on unofficial strike against victimisation of TGWU Convenor, shop stewards and other workers have called for maximum solidarity in their mass picket in Reading on Monday September 22. Assemble 6 a.m. outside Adwest Engineering, Woodley, Reading.

to the strike be sent to 46 Berkley ing. Cheques Jers should be to J. Dhoot. 'OF COURSE NOT ! QUITE RIGHT BROTHER, AND THAT'S WHY THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT WHAT WE MUST DO...

From cies in Liverpool and elsewhere, and restoring the casualisation of dock work.

Jones-Aldington specifically laid down that dockers surplus to any firm should be transferred to other employers, and that they should only be placed on the temporary unattached register for disciplinary reasons.

Thousands of jobs It is on this agreement that thousands of dock jobs throughout the country depend: and for this reason not only Liverpool dockers, but docks mass meetings in Southampton, Hull and Glasgow have voted to strike if it is flouted in the port of Liverpool.

As such it is one of the few struggles against redundancy to be forced into the national arena.

The employers are now looking • to improved redundancy payments in a bid to head off the threatened stoppage: but the mass unemployment on Merseyside means that their chances of inducing Liverpool dockers to sell their jobs must be slim.

While the Tories have publicly declared that they will not intervene, there is little doubt that their monetarist policies are the force driving the employers into this confrontation and that they long to see the uneasy Jones-Aldington truce-which epitomised the BUT FOR BLACKPOOL, THE ISSUES ARE CLEAR..

AFTER ALL...

back failure of the Heath government to crush the dockers-decisively broken in order to strike a blow against the whole working class.

IGWU leaders appear to fade bond his thee among IsSU dockers: but a spate of frantic behind-the-scenes manoeuvres can be expected between now and the strike deadline as bureaucrats and employers seek to head off an explosion of militancy that offers a lead to every section of workers in struggle against closures and redundancies. *No retreat! Defend all dock jobs! Work sharing without loss of pay! *Support the dockers! For mass strike action to bring down the Tories!

Jones •..CAN THE LABOUR PARTY WITH ITS PRESENT LEADERSHIP OFFER ANY GAINS TO THE ORGANISED WORKING CLASS ?..

CAN IT BUILD A MOVEMENT TO BRING DOWN

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