[DAN FASSAB Gulf of Workers fighting blatant racial…]
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DAN FASSAB Gulf of Workers fighting blatant racial discrimination in the British imperialist outpost in Gibraltar have been imposing a black' on supplies to the Ministry of Defence dockyard passing through both the commercial port and the airport.
The workers, members of the British Transport and General Workers Union, suffer from discriminatory rates of pay which keep Gibraltar citizens in the dockyard on a wage £18 per week lower than UK citizens doing identical work. Their struggle is in defiance of vicious British colonial regulations which make them liable to sacking for industrial action. Already one Ministry of Defence power generator has had to be shut downwith needed spares held up through blacking.
The National Union of Seamen are giving support, blacking material to the Royal Fleet AuxilFRed Sea MASSAWA ITREA GOJJAM ADDIS ABABA HARRAR ETH KENYA NAIROBI iary in Gibraltar.
In this garrison colony any industrial action takes place under threat of military intervention. In 1972 a general strike was met by troops running power supplies.
The pay dispute has come to a head with the escilating cost of living. UK citizens receive a special supplement because of the high cost of living in Gibraltar-but Gibraltarian workers are told their rates are lower because prices are lower!
The colonial administration has refused to argue a case for its racial based pay policy. Under pressure, the most they have offered the Gibraltar citizens is 80% of the £49 basic paid to UK nationals.
This offer was backed with threats of reprisals if the TGWU action is not called off.
British dockers and airport workers in particular must be ready to take action in defence of their Gibraltar brothers if this threat is implemented.
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The attack on Carrillo is symptom of the fact tht the Soviet bureaucracy finds the consequence of this contradiction especially troubling at the present time.
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