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movement, the army are becoming ations. The troops are now clearing over 2000 tons of rubbish a day.
beginning of the operations when they were faced with mass pickets at the incinerators Port Glasgow, Gourock, Greenock and Bellshill - who have struck in sulidarity with the Glasgow drivers and Glasgow firemen —who have refused to put out tires caused by spontaneous combustion on the rubbish dumps because of the use of the army against their strike in necessary to halt Labour's strike breaking SETBACKS setbacks in the last weck. The elec airport has ended, and the pickets have been withdrawn. The sparks are now the subject of a witch-hunt shows that a serious campaign for strike action to free the two could still succeed Shrewshury Two National Coordinating Committee National Confe rence, Saturday 19 April, 2 pm = 5 pm Congress House, Great Rissell Street, London WCL. Basis of representation. two delegates from each organisation Apply for credentials (10p each to: 5. Fraser, 33 Hatton Gandens, Liverpor Merseyside L3 ZAA. to the Newcastle Scaffoldens Strike should be sent to Strike Committee c/o Badie Brady, 86 Beawell Lane, Neweastle on Tyne (phone D632 2143033 FOR THREE WEEKS NOW, strike breaking troops have been in the streets of Glasgow. They have heen carrying out a mussive scabbing operation on behalf of a Labour Government determined to defend the social contract, and a corrupt and bankrupt Labour Corporation delermined to defend its own position.
The Corporation's dustcart drivers and electricians, against whose strikes this onslaught is directed, have displayed the same fighting detemination that highlighted the Scottish strike wave at the end of 1974. But despite the tenacity of the strikers, no clear strategy has emerged for a fight by the entire labour movement of the West of Scotland to get the troops our of Glasgow and defend the wages and living standards While the trade union bureaucrats sit on the rest of the Glasgow labour increasingly ambitious in their oper compared with 600 tons a day at the Only council drivers in Dundee, 1973- have taken the type of action The strikes have suffered serions tricians' action which closed Glasgow Oueens Park, who is trying to blamg Donations and resolutions of suppe -12 GLASGOW IMG the death in a high rise fat of an old woman with a heart conditius on the electricians untion which put lifts out of action This smear las been seized on by Labour's Corpor ation hacks and MPs, who are denanding that HEPTU boss Frank Chapple instruct the electricians to put the hifts back in action The actions of MeElhone, one of the tiree Labour MPs who orig inally opposed the use of troops, have oniy been made possible by the abandonment of any attempt FOREIGN:
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in recent years, voted overwhela ingly against a resolution calling for the withdrawal of the troops Mcanwhile, last week the Genera Purposes Commictee of the Transport & Geberal Workers Union tejec ted out of band a call to make the twelve week-old drivers strike off icial. Jack Jones, praised and del ended on the pleket lines by Glas gow Communis Parly hureaucral Hugh Wyper, had a previous app ointment and left the drivers standing on the dobrstep of Transport Houe.
NEGOTIATIONS Not surprisingly the mood within the Corporation's Establishment Conmittee, which is responsible for the negoliations, is conficent A mo trom their sawdust Caesar James Cunnell to regrade offers to manua] workers was rejected ay 20 votes to The Communist Party clements in the bureaucracy, who have for three weeks held back all the strike. attempts to organise support action through a West of Scotland steward meeting, are now cautiously mutter Ing under pressure about the possib ility of such a meeting For them, however, its only function would bi to applaud their own efforts up to now us a back to work squad, The real task facing a West of Scotlund stewards meating is to tum the fighting spirit of the Glas gow strike waves from simple def ence of individual strugeles to an all-out offensive to get the troops and smash the social contract SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DOMESTIC: E6 per year 13.00 for 6 months 9 per year surface mail 412 per year airmail Wrice to RED WEEKLY (distribution)
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