site two weeks ago, will be readmitted department will open up negotsations allowed to go ahead.
The IPD work in threatened to become ployed youth of Ireland.
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In rosest years, the army has been prosent ut the St Helens annual shows in increas ine foret and this wear Laboar councile Les Colans attacked tre snow a The neighbouring Skeltersdal conneil has banned the army frue its show but, alter much discussion in the local press and in te Councus Labour Broup the mentary lakemer o so molens was Labourites about the Red Devils doing nobody any harm' ignored the reality or what was Jappening the rocrultment of the unemployed youth of St Helens to go and kill the unemThe urmy puts a great effort into recrattment in Lancashire. This area of high unemployment provides a fifth of the army's recruits, in recent aecks the army EASTBOURNE Forty-seven workers-most of them women-have been on strike for five weeks at the Dorothy Gray perfume factory in Easthourne in a dispute over Most of the mon at the factory are still going to work and the management have tried to demoralise the strikers by contacting other factories and even by preventing the pickets sheltering from support, Other workers on the trading estate have given donations and dockers in London are hacking Dorothy Gray class.
In all these struggles, the strikers have seen very quickly the need to elect strike committees to democratically run the strikes and to win support from other sections of workers In all of them, too, the union bureaucracies have had problems in 'controlThe task now is to try to unily these struggles which are making the 'social contract fray at the edges into a united struggle by all workers Council's back-down by bunching a pieker of the military displays at the show. About thirty supporters of TOM with placards calling for the innedine withdrawal of the troops from Ireland and for a Labour can on rocal chl displays did must to coaned me any a propaganis Most people at the show supported Uie picket. leallets were accepted with great readiness - and the pockets were anproach ed by several ex-soldiers and serving solsers wit expresso serest to the Erog:
Morale among the troups at the show was so poor that officers intervened severa times to break up discussions between soldier summed'it all up when he spid: "After getting out of the ariay Ill never join so much as a darts bean - but I will join TOM."
LIVERPOOL IMG that can smash the "social contract, The coming conference on thresbolds and the fight against inflation in Coventry is precisely the sort of local action that nepds to be taken. Such local conferences can work out the demands and tactles that are necessary, both now and when the thresholds run out in October, to unite militants in the localities around a wages polity -such as concerted struggle for a genuine sliding scale of wages-that can begin to soive the problems of inflation for the working TRADE UNION SPONSORED CONFERENCE on cost-of-living increases Saturday 10 August 2,00 pm TGWU Hall, Ringway St Johns,