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Socialist Press no. 88, 22 February 1978 · scan p. 11 · about 319 words

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Be Garners Steak The demonstration, e strike for union attended by few trades Cyril Margolis and his son Geoffrey, Managing Director The Garners Steak House strike for union recognition continues into its fourth week, ito fossette after about 80 people supported a demonstration last Thursday, organised by Westminster Trades Council and the strike committee.

PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report of Garners Steak Houses Storemen on strike at GEC's Stoke Plant, Coventry are being supported by those laid The demonstration attended by few trades council delegates was diverted into the back streets of the into the back streets of the West End, well away from the scab restaurants.

One picket was arrested while he was outside the Oxford Street restaurant talking to customers. Other pickets and supporters are being intimidated by police.

The TGWU officials have not mobilised the blacking vital to win the strike or the levy inside the unions necessary to tinance the strike.

All strikers are on only £6 a week hardship money.

The question of blacking supplies is as vital to the Garners strike as to every dispute in catering. The refusal of the Region 1 bureaucrats to implement it is precisely a statement of where they stand on victory.

Their refusal to organise a levy is the signal-familiar to all hotel and catering strikers that the union intends to allow destitution to erode the ranks of the strikers.

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Against that the strikers must turn their strength and determination back into the union, to demand blacking and adequate financial Mass pickets are held every Saturday from lunchtime onwards.

The demand must be for union officials to organise support for these from the wider TGWU membership.

The scab restaurants must be closed and mass pickets organised to defend the regular pickets from police and fascists.

All donations and messages of support should be sent to the strike headquarters at 12-13 Henrietta Street, London WC2.