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Send to: Socialist Press, 31. Dartmouth Park Hill Deputy Blake • Barson White.. Thornett. Corti Paintin Taylor Glen ... Harris. • • • Sullivan Braggins Turnball Daw. .

Gallagher. Boyles • Whalley. Waiters . . Boyce.... Thompson Brennan . Jakerman. Pollard . . Brough.. Rankin . . Oliver... Tiwari Vaughan - to press, pressure is being put on the GWU to take up the case for the reinstatement of the remaining strikers.

Efforts are being made to arrange a meeting between GMWU official Romp, John Bruce the chief steward and the management.

It is to be hoped that the union leaders will give full Convenor 1044 . 75 YOUR MAN AT THE TOP Grunwick strikers have called off their proposed lobby of the TUC on December 21-under threat of suspension from their union APEX if they went ahead.

This latest bureaucratic hatchet-job by the APEX leadership comes amid rumours of a sudden end to the dispute that every union official has lồng been determined to lose.

Victory is being handed on a plate to Ward, Gorst, and Gouriet by a TUC that now refuses to enforce even the right to trade union representation.

Leaders' fault

That such a situation could come into being is entirely • the fault of all the present "eadlers" of the tragi unions-not only Grantham and Jones, whose own unions are fighting for recognition at the plant.

Also to blame are Tom Jackson, David Basnett and Frank Chapple who have done all in their power to ensure that no action was taken by their members to cut off essential supplies LOOKS LIKE WE NEED A QUICK FACELIFT A NEW MAN OF THE PESTLE:

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postal collections.

Doing nothing

In a cynical display of contempt for the 10-week long efforts of these underpaid, largely immigrant workers, these leaders recently united in a TUC vote to make it clear that they will do nothing to win full recognition for APEX • and reinstatement of those on strike.

Now, after the mass picketing of the summer; after hundreds of arrests and injuries sustained; after the Vicious SPG attacks of November 7, the question is: are these trade union leaders going to get away with it?

Defeat?

Will they manage to inflict a defeat on workers where Ward, NAFF and the by themselves have been unable to?

The answer from the Grunwick workers must be a I KNOWWHAT ABOUT A TRADE UNIONIST. humi ...AND HE'LL CERTAINLY JUMP AT THE CANCE OF A PART-TIME JOB!

O.K.- WHEEL HIM IN:

resounding NO!-a reaffirmation of their determination to win this basic dispute despite the opposition of their own union leaders.

But if victory is to be achieved, a correct political line is necessary.

The essence of such a line is simple-namely, pitting the ranks of the trade union movement, who have shown a hundred times their willingness to support the strikers, against the official leadership.

Direct approach For us that means directly approaching postal, gas and water, and electricity workers in the area and asking them to take blacking action in defiance of Jackson, Basnett and Chapple.

But if these workers come out on their own they can easily be isolated and browbeaten into calling a halt to their blacking action.

That is why we say that, in addition to approaching IT WOULD NEVER WORK-THEY WOULD DEMAND A THOROUGH INQUIRY...

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Address these workers locally, the Grunwick strikers should also approach every union branch and Trades Council in the country, and demand of them that they commit themselves to practical support to any blacking action.

Strike action For us that means not just passing motions of support, and pledging financial donations, but giving assurances thát they will engage in strike action to defend postal workers and others from victimisation or legal attack.

After 70 weeks, the Grunwick workers have the right to demand strike action from other trade unionists who, verbally at least, back their demands.

PRESS issues issties issues issues (Over Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth London NW5 1HR APEX leader Granthai This position, coupl to an immediate resumpti of day-time picketing and t scheduling of a mass pick outside TUC headquartı early in the new year, shot be the basis of a reactivati of the strike.

It is important that the policies be adopted a fought for in the forthcomi meeting on Grunwi organised by the South E: Region of the TUC as well the Day of Action on : December.

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