Employers Lock Out Act1
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All but two commercial television companies imposed a lock-out on their technicians from last Monday. As a result of this commercial transmissions were closed down.
The technicians were locked out as they returned to work following a 72 hour official strike called by their union, ACTT.
Representatives of the employers said that they would be locked out until the ACTT withdrew its claim for £231.00 back payment, outstanding since the 1973 wage freeze.
CRISIS The action of the companies must be seen as indicative of the sharp conditions prevailing today between workers and employers as the ecor omic conditions worsen, the class struggle sharpens and unemployment mounts.
The last comparable action was the sacking by the Mirror group of all their printers on Fleet Street until they were prepared to accept the manning levels of the employThe media, in this period, are of extreme importance to the ruling class. It is not surprising therefore that it is the newspaper and television employers who carry out this form of attack.
RIGHT WING MOVES
moves of the right wing in to call a special general MARKET (cont' it. Wilson Is not separațing it and the trade union leaders are opening the door for them.
At the same time the working class have to pay the price for the Common Market, which has brou ght about massive increases in the cost of living, linked of course to inflation on a world scale. Prices in Europe have been kept up by devices such as beef and butter mountains, wine lakes and the destruction of thousands of tons of fruit and vegetables, in order to rob the working class.
SOLUTION
The EEC is a major part of the attack against them, but workers would be wrong to think that coming out of the Market would, in itself, be a solution to their pre blems. Membership of the EEC gi. the big employers an advantage. This is why Wilson gets the backing of not only the Tory and Liberal party machines but the entire capitalist press.
A solution to the problems of the working class is to fight for a NO vote as part of the fight for a new leadership in the working class. It involves the revolutionary struggle for the international unit! of the working class - for the over throw of Rritish and European