For of the factory. for a mass picket of the Armstrong Patents factory, in an escalation of the campaign in solidarity with Jean Jepson, the sacked T&GWU convenThis was one of the decisions taken by a meeting of 120 militants on Wednesday 15 May. It was organised by the Armstrong's Defence CommiLee, and sponsored by a number of WILLET. Jocal trade union bodies ALMOST ALONE Jean told the meeting that she was now almost alone on the picket line, thanks to the failure of the T&G Region 10 and 10/41d branch officials to support her tight for reHowever, more and more workers at the plant, mainly women, could now see that the victimisation was a prelude to speed-up and redundanA speaker from York University outlined the political background to struggle the dispure. The ruling class had been dealt a shattering blow by the miners' strike, bur the cconomic situation did not permit a let-up in their efforts to cur back working class living stanSUNNINGDALE - continued from page 1.
Roy Bradford, Unionist member of the 'power sharing Ulster Executive, is pressing Labour's Northern Ireland Secretary Merlyn Rees to give the loyalists some hope of carly elections. This would open up a "constitutional channel for overturning Sunningdale, and would marginalise the hard men, while pushing the "politicians' into centre But this would mean abandoning Sunningdale, Any Unionist who stayed in the power-sharing Executive would effectively be shandoning any hope of re-election. The Executive would probably split, and we would Al Sunningdale Whitelaw pulled off a confidence trick. Its purpose was to bail our the Tory Govern ment, and prevent the Irish crisis from combining with the crisis in Britain, He fooled everyone except the majority of the people in the North of Ireland. Above all he duped Merlyn Rees and Stan Orme, who tives The cacalation of atracks on weakly organised sections of the class, and on other oppressed groups, was a preparation for a struggle with the big battalions in the winter. This could be seen at Armstrong's, and in the police attacks on pickets at Essex University. Essex was a pre-view of the full-length movie we will all have a chance to see this The Defence Committee is still calling for financial support, and for an extension of the blacking of Arsistrong components in the motor industry. T&GWU branches are being asked to demand an enquiry at Executive level.
Donations and mesarges of sapport 2o: Armstrong's Defence Committee, 39 St. Hildas St.. Bridlington, E. Forks.
'THE CASE OF JEAN JEPSON HullING pamphlet, price 10p plus postage from D. Booth, 7 Parkside Close, Park Avenue, Hull (10% dicount on 10 ol more copies! now have to extricate the Labour Government from an impossibic situation, The crisis will get worse before it gets better. The loyalist strike will inevitably he accompanied by violent sectarian attucks. In preparing their defence, the catholic ghettoes will be* drawn more closely behind the IRA. The catholics will be more than ever determined to smash the remnants of the Northern state, and force a British withdrawal British imperialism wants to stay. because it cannot accept the implideleat so near to home. The South ern Irish capitalists oppose a British withdrawal because they would be swept aside in the revolutionary changes which would result But the choice in the North of Ireland is stark and has been for fifty years, Either partition and the soctarian protestant ascendancy, or a British withdruwal, und self-deter. mination for the whole people of Ireland. There are no other alterna Red Wickly: 23 May 1974 Page 3