LONDON DOCKERS have launched 1 determined night for jobs and are entering their third week of strike action. Since 1967 employment in the docks And in the Fast End generally, unemploymont is running at 9 per cent Many Jobk have disappeared because multinational firms such as Vestey's hase clused their riverside whanes only to ICEBECUE SEE ARE CHERISE BONEY on hiring which the Scheme lays down, and can avoid paying the wage and provans the coad condibions and tob county that dockers have won over years of struggle.
London dockers are now calling on the National Part Shop Stewards Com mitter which ran the 1972 disprite WELL Be REBau Sarke The dockors have ignored the pica of IGWU leader Jack Jones for a retur yet another government report on the docks and Labour's natonalisation plans The Job Aldinglon report that was foisted upon them in 1972 has led la the loss of a further 5,000 jobs.
Jonas has boon aided by the press in his campaipa do present the dockers as "gangsters who ae out so steal the jobs of the warchouse workors and Jouy duves emered in ports outside bie Docks Lahour Schoard In tact, When the Cobham Farm container base within the Scheme in 1972, the men at the depot retained their jobs and received an Ell a week pay rise and a 10 hour seduction in the working week into the BUNTUMET At the same time Jack Jones has failed to mention that the transport bosses of thie Road Haulage Association MINC OCCIPHA CHEERST However mere are sonous wenknesss in the dockers light. Thicy have failed to make it absolutely clear to the mon in Labour Scheme that they are not simply ses to make these men their slooga of what constitutes dock work snd Un the Docky Labour Schee, must be the docks-including those who are at pre sent outside the Scheme-against any CLUTCHES THEE LIFELE will save jobs not only for themachos but for the whole working class.