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"BRING DOWN THE TORIES THIS WINTER' Saturday November 15 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 Open to all labour movement bodies Credential £1 (unwaged 50p) from G. Webster 169, Barclay Road, Smethwick, W. Midlands This Gdansk stuff is catching. It is one thing to go 'supporting' a strike in the workers' states in the hope that it is in a procapital direction. But look where it is leading now.

Can this really be the voice of the Daily Mail?

"An agreement of this significance cannot be unilaterally torn up by the port employers of Merseyside merely because it is no longer in their interests.

for years, politicians and press have lambasted those unions who have cynically bilked on solemn pay deals.

Now the boot is on the other foot and it would be thoroughly dishonest to pretend that it was a soft and inoffensive little carpet slipper.

The Liverpool port employers went looking for 'bovver'.

In these circumstances, the strike ultimatum by Britain's dockers is defensive, not offensive. However potentially UNION DUES damaging to the nation, it is a legitimate brandishing of the strike weapon.

As the Daily Mail commented more than a week ago, it is for the employers in this dispute to back down."

Well yes it can. And not just the Mail. The Telegraph too has distanced itself from the employers. Why?

When the Tory press urges its government to attack the working class, it also wants it to win.

To attack, at this stage, one of the best organised and most powerful sections of the class head on, on an issue which has united the opposition, is no part of its plan.

The employers have displayed not the crushing brutality of a Churchill, but the incompetence of a Lord Cardigan-and even the Daily Mail does not really believe that the charge of the Light Brigade was a victory.

:Even in the class war discretion is the better part of valour.

AT THE bo 'HERES A STANDARD ISSUE PAIR OF SPECS... HELL NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT HAIR...

LUCKY THIS PLACE IN SMITH SQUARE COULD FIT YOU IN! Digbeth Hall, Birmingham HI FRED— GNE HIM A QUICK thy over news "GENERAL SECRETARY" WILL YOU? CITRINE BLOW-WAVE! WELL TO GET INTO THE SWING OF THINGS, THE T.U.C. LADS ARE MEETING THATCHER FOR NHY NOT TAG ALONG ? A NOSH-UP NEXT WEEK:

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