GLASGOW - L.L. Green, 9-15 James Wais reernesHre DOVER - R. Williams, Maritime House, Snargate Street, Dover.
LONDON - Bro. Fleming, 325 Newham Way E16.
HULL - Bro. Holden, 8 Posterngate, LIVERPOOL Bro.
Pearson A.J. Stephen Brown.
National Union furnacemen; academic 'expert on industrial The Report also decided that the shipowners' refusal to grant the seamen's demands did not flow from any desire to maximise profits but because they 'had to bear in mind the national interest'. Not surprisingly, the Report concluded that the strike was 'unjustified', but at the same time showed that the action had had at ledst some enect oy recommenaing a slight improvement on the owners The most telling lesson of the was wnat happened afterThe Government declared that it was their 'final' offer, the TUC said that all support would be cut off if the NUS didn't accept it - as they do and the seamen rejected it. Two weeks of further strike action followed and the strikers were offered a new cedi wiw e ont exta eavs teave Although many of the strikers' original were not met when they accepted this latest offer, one thing at least had been proved - that it was militant action and not inquiries which brought results!
2. Solidarity In 1966 the Hull Strike Committee said of the TUC vve are Diteny Isolate Despite the attempts of the TUC to isolate the seamen in SuKers Tece vee suovor on nundreds of bodies of the workers movement. Many trades councils, a number of Constituency miners in Kent, Scotland and Yorkshire. shop stewards committees. anc the executives and annual ences of such unions as ASLEF and DATA (now the AUEW-TASS) were just a few of those who expressed solidarity. Yet much more could have been done The executive of the NUS did not seek active support from their most likely allies agreed that the dockers could move ships if the ports became congested; tney cia -not take up-te unions in Finland, Italy, Germany Australia and America to come to their
ONE HARDLY EXPECTS to find unbiased articles in the Daily Mail, but even so, the unbridled prejudice of their coverage of the relationship between 'Leyland car militant" Tony Homer and *Tory MP's faughter' Antonia Bennett came as something of a revelation.
The "prize' for such reporting must go to Ann Leslie for her article on 7 September in "Femail' entitled 'But how much is it a case of "getting back at daddy"..?' Ann Leslie "attachment' to the "militant extremist' Homer. She is considered newsworthy not in her own right but only in relation to the male revolutionaries and extremists who lead her up the garden path —just as Rose Dugdale is made interesting to the reader through her implied fascination' "bomb-throwing'.