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shall YOUR AT THE TOP has hit papers with 100% NUJ membership hard.

The action is totally inadequate to win a general wage rise openly breaking the pay policy, but will undoubtedly win under the counter deals for many journalists.

But because the campaign has centred solely on the removal of restrictions on local bargaining it, has done nothing to decide the question of what will happen when those talks start.

By allowing chapels which reach agreement with their local managements to call off their sanctions the NUJ leadership has opted for a few gains at the expense of a general wage rise throughout the industry.

Meanwhile the powerful National Graphical Association which verbally rejected the twelve month rule has held back its memt ers until the innual review in March.

MAN Nearly two weeks after the sacking of 84 workers in Garners Steak Houses in Central London, their strike for union recognition has yet to prove successful.

Although picketing has forced the closure of all but a handful of the fourteen restaurants involved, Garners' General Manager has declared that 'we can carry on operating with our present staff and we fully intend to do so' It is clear that in the lengthy build up to the confrontation with approaches to ACAS by union officials, the employer has made elaborate plans to beat the stoppage.

Scabs have been organised to plaster restaurant windows with posters declaring their 'right to work' and attacking 'rent-a-pickets' • while a management notice expresses surprize that anyone should prefer a union to the company staff association.

Apart from giving the strike official backing and organising limited blacking, the TGWU official's activity has been in organising the first of a series of demonstration marches last Friday night.

This in fact, began fifteen minutes before the advertised time and therefore prevented many people participating.

By removing pickets from the restaurants on one of the weeks busiest nights, the danger that such demonSALES STOCKS BUT THE LEYLAND CONVENORS HAVE ALREADY ACCEPTED THE WORST IMAGINABLE CONDITIONS ... WHAT MORE CAN EDWARDES WANT?

SO WE'RE UNANIMOUS-DOUBLE PRODUCTION AND SCREW MORE EFFORT OUT OF THE BASTARDS ON THE ANY SHOP FLOOR... IS THAT THE PHONE? strations will act not as a way to strengthen the strike but as a diversion for the need to put further, direct pressure onto the employer.

A programme of mass pickets at peak times on those premises still trading would be the best means of doing this.

Similarily, blacking of supplies has to be stepped up and a campaign organised throughout the TGWU in London beginning with a call for the Garners workers branch.

Alongside this is the need for the strikers to join with other trade unionists in the preparation of self-defence squads to defend pickets from continuing racism and fascist provocation.

SALES STOCKS

DOES HE WANT US TO STAND ON OUR HEADS OR SOMETHING?... O.K. THEN, PLL SEE WHAT I CAN DO IN THE MEETING Y SO YOU WANT A CUT IN PRODUCTION -AND SCREW MORE OUT OF THE BASTARDS ON THE SHOP FLOOR, SIR? ANYTHING ELSE?

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