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******************************* Troope drive past the picket line in Glasgow *** SUBSCRIBE march. £3.50p for 6 months A per year surface anail {12 per year airmail Write to RED WEEKLY distribution' 182 Pentonville Road, London N.I. ENGLAND. The electricians and dustcart drivers of Glasgow remain determined to continue their struggles despite Lab our's strike breaking use of troops. But so far they have not been able to break the stranglehold of a trade union bureaucruey which is desper. ately tighting to hold the line of the Having applied the stranglehold, the bureaucrats are now standing back to watch their members go down to defeat at the hands of the state.
A demonstration called on Thur sday 27 March by the drivers strike committee indicated clearly the strengths and weaknesses of the drivers' and electricians" struggle. The march weat irom the city's Trade Union Centre to form a mass picket on the Polmadie incinerator At the picket, strike committee members were able to announce to the strikers and their supporters that they had won sympathy strike action in Greenock, Port Glasgow, Dundee and Nottingham. But in the city of Glasgow itself, only 120 or so people —almost entirely strikers or members of the revolutionary left - could be mobilised for the While the marchers stood at the gates of Polmadie, the occasional Army vehicle sped almost unhind ered past the pickets as the daily amount of rubbish collected reached a new high of 1,800 tons.
Hugh Wyper, leading CP member and TGWU District Secretury for Glasgow, who spoke at the picket, was repeatedly called upon to give an explanation of the oby. ious blocking of official recognition by Jack Jones. His only reply, bowever, was to argue thut everything must go through the process of committee neetings. It is obvious that, left in the hands of the bure ancracy, the decision by the West of Scotland TWU stewards meeting (representing 60,000 workers) to call for recognition and support action will mean nothing.
The clectricians and drivers have been touring West of Scotland ind ustry to call for support and for a West of Scotland meeting of all shop stewards. The need for such a meeting to co ordinate a massive strike response to Labour's scabbing is inc reusingly urgent. That way the succ esses of solidarty action outside Glasgow could be built upon,
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