Sunday Times Ree Speech Fraud

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Two weeks ago THF held a press conference announcing that ACAS had found that there was no evidence to suggest that shop steward Pat McGuire (whose sacking started the dispute) was dismissed for her union activities.

Law's ridiculous reply to this was that "we have never claimed that Mrs McGuire was sacked for her union activities.

Why then does Law think Pat McGuire was sacked?

Despite the fact that ACAS have proved to be a liability, only providing THF with propaganda to use against the strikers, Law is still working with them.

Last week ACAS had discussions with both the union and THF. But the Night Out strikers realise that the only way their strike can be won is by a black of THF throughout the Midlands region.

Alan Law has so far been evasive as to whether he intends even to reimplement the limited blacking of THF of a few months ago. In a recent press interview on the Night Out dispute, Brian Mathers, the Midlands Regional Secretary said of Law's leadership of the strike that, "Alan Law is particularly suited, because of his position in the transport industry, to black deliveries.

Exactly! So if Mathers and Law are serious about winning the strike -what are they waiting for?

Messages of support and donations to the strike fund should be sent to the Night Out Strike Committee, c/o Pat McGuire, Transport House, Broad Street, Birmingham.

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HOW WE FIGHT

YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT st WSL Youth Pamphiet, shc link between unemploym: • Amand Print workers at the Sunday Times who demanded extra money for extra work have been treated to a nauseating display of solidarity between the employer and their own officials.

The print workers were told on Saturday that the size of the paper was being increased and refused to work until they were given assurances that extra money would be paid. The chapel has been demanding a week's notice of the size of the paper.

REFUSED

About one third of the paper's run was lost after the management refused to give a guarantee of "big paper' money for a 68-page paper. The NGA members-who work a 13-hour day on the night of production refused to work overTHE TOOLROOM STRIKE AND THE FIGHT TO END WAGE CONTROL Brings together analysis of struggles against Phase 2 with a full account of the Toolroom strike - the mass action that brought down the Labour government and brought the Lib-Lab coalition to power.

Also includes the programme of the Campaign for Democracy in the I ahnur Movement time to complete the run.

The response of the paper's editor, Harold Evans, was to issue a vicious statement accusing the NGA workers of "putting their own narrow interests above those of free speech, truth and the thalidomide families."

He protested that after five years campaigning for the article-which has become a symbol of the paper's free speech' virility-the print workers had sabotaged his efforts. Yet he did not even see fit to inform the NGA why the number of pages had been increased.

For five years the paper complied with bourgeois law in agreeing to conceal the role of Distillers and drug manufacturers.

When at two days notice print workers raise the question of payment, Evans says "five years of effort are lost in a single night."

Immediately the NGA General Secretary, Joe Wade, and the Natsopa General Secretary, Owen O'Brien went 011 TV to commiserate with Evans and that other freedom loving employer Larry Lamb of the Sun and News of the World.

Unblinking they listened to Lamb describe his print workers as 'sheep' led by wreckers' . Not the slightest protest was raised.

Both union officials complained instead that their authority was undermined because Fleet Street employers negotiated bigger pay increases with their members atter the officials had settled for 5%!

Wade complained bitterly that management had been "doing deals behind the union leaders back. How could the union leaders stop actions if the management "undermines the authority of the union"

Contrast this with the response of Victor Dunn, FoC of the machine managers who took the action:

*If my members had known what Harold Evans was gomg to say about them today I feel they would have gone home at 3 o"clock on