[Drivers at the Nuneaton depot of Seabournes Shipping…]

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Drivers at the Nuneaton depot of Seabournes Shipping Co. - a haulage contractors mainly engaged in long distance continental work - are in the second week of a strike for trade union recognition.

In a statement put out by the strike committee the drivers say:

*The work force at the above Trade Únion right of recognition. company are on strike for the basic For almost the last two months the workers have rightly demanded that this basic right should be conceded by Management. The Management's only response has been to remove some of the more lucrative work from Nuneaton which has effectively cut some of the workers' wages by substantial amounts."

Both the Nuneaton Trades Council and the T&GWU 5/166 branch have supported the Seabourn workers' action and have called on the T&GWU executive to make the strike official.

This call has as yet received no response.

The strike committee is calling for all Seabournes. work to be blacked and for urgent financial Donations should be sent to: . Colledge, 68, Ivanhoe Avenue, Attleborough, Nuneaton. every Trade Union official has worked flat out to get delegates who will oppose the previous fighting leadership.

Secondly the meeting will only be for the election of officers and to accept a constitution. In order to make sure of continuing bureaucratic control over the Council the -TUC has ruled out of order in advance any amendment to the model rules that seeks to get rid of the "gag rule" Rule 14 (renumbered as Rule 15 in the new Model The only answer of the bureaucrats and Stalinists to the movement forward of the working class and the struggle for alternative leadership, is to try to tighten their bureaucratic hold.

Oxford Trades Council had a powerful record in the town; last Friday they organised a well attended public meeting against the dictatorship in India. Those who fought to establish this record will not be silenced by bureaucratic moves.