and "non-craft" union differences and jobs to be had, which could spilt between NGA and NATOPA. ing to the law co rely upon their o at the level of Fathers of the Chapel a principie, following the position of kers.
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A development of this natere would provide the material conditions for the complete abalition af craft union barriers, opening up opportunities for integration and co-operation of print unions like NATSOPA and NGA, so that the newspaper industry can be reorganised on the basis of tasks performed rather than craft But the dominant section of the NGA Bureaucracy lave no intention of leading. a mess struggle to demand that the benefits of improved technology be handed ovnr to all newspaper workers, no matter the office nat unibn they balong to. They will no doubt lean on and organise the more insular NGA members to emphasise the superior right of croft union members to any new skills that need to be leared, eer ento 3 compostive joseng tọr pops To be tair to Mick Gosling, he also added that strong trade union organisadion was alsa necessary to prevent redundancies, but this vague, if correct general ity does not help us to understand what kind of strength will be needed, and in which way the unions will have to fight closure. Nor did his fsilure to make dis tinctions within the unions help to clariAt one stage in his articie, he appeered to be saying that the NGA were tumfor aid, rather than son, when he probibly meant to say that the handhul of NGA functionaries who initiated this were not carrying out the course of ac tion that could win struggles in the print. The membership of the NGA, specially:
[shop stewards], havo bean prepared to struggle, but unfortunately this has boen for the reservation of the differential a:
Bonfield INGA general secretary] rether than in defence of jobs and egainst rationisation at the expense of printwor.
Strong union oraniation did nat ord Or WIESU BHUTANE EEIBEOCOG legemend threats that the entive Daily Express would bo clased down if the Manchester attice refused to print the Scottish agition This misledership opened up the floorgetes of feer omongst printmoricers in the Manchester office of the Express, and helped the mangement to intimidate the workforce into scathing on the Scot tish men and agresing to print the Scottish edition. for the paymet of a lew nours Dert-me, tor the extre hours it takes so print the extra copies. It is now • common grumble in the Express office among the worker thet Beaverbrook Newspapery have now got two pepers aiUROSE TOE LEOAO OTONH There i a feeling among some men st which meny of the men don't like to think anout too mach -that the menagernent are adopting the islami tactie of first chopping the Scortish office and then, atter a polite waiting period, giving Manchester the same meatment.
Beaverbrook's might be inspired to imiTate Sun boss Rapert Murdoch and print a rational edition from a single office by the tect thet they are bui ding o now office in London with all the latest technological wondes, which has apperently left them with an enormoas overdraft. There has aiso been gossip that a similar future is being planned for the Daily Mall in Manchester, and talk that machinery to replace che hot metal process is to be introduced in the near future at Thomson House How much of this gosip hes any foun dation it is difficult to determine, but it is almost certain that the newspaper proprie tons are grossly exaggerating the speed and sase with which these new methods can be introduced, although in the long term these kinds of developments are very much The Glasgow Action Corrittee do not provide an examole of how these drastic changes can be fought, despite their incial protest sit-in", for publicty their policy adhered to cap talist legality by negotisting to buy the piant with thair redundancy money keeging on good terme with Beav brookl and appealing for money 10 the trade union bureaucracy - which mesnt in practice that they did not attempt to mobanse prietworkers for solidarity, - NGA PRINTWORKER, Manchester. Jean- Paul Sartre speaking at a proAlgerian demonstration in Paris 8 FEBRUARY, 1962: At the height of -the Algorien Hoerstion movemen, eg Binst Franch imperialism, 60,000