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According to Archie Hood strike leader, the Glasgow dust-cart drivers were starv ed back to work.

It is certain they were not defeated by the troops, but by Hood's fellow CP members on Glasgow Trades Council, who refused to organise any supporting action except one demonstra tion on a day when workers would have to sacrifice their Easter Holiday pay to attend They were defeated also by the T&GWU leadership who, in the name of the Social Contract refused to declare the strike official, and by the treacherous reformists on the city's Labour Council and in the Labour government who brought the troor in to break the strike. We call o trade unionists still to move resolutions condemming the use of troops by Wilson.

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Printed by Trade Union Labor offers a settlement which is in effect a wage cut, with no clause to relate it to the rising cost of living.

To accept such a deal would mean Birch openly acting in defence of British Leyland against the struggle of his members for wages and in defence of agreements.

RFOL

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