IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Lewisham lesson for TASS members

Red Weekly No. 195, 21 April 1977 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 372 words

The scan: rw-no195-apr-21-1977.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 1-3 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 2 of the scan

LEW (TASS| Shop Stewand = CECEles, Lewistam softhree workers at the GEC What Proces Instruments factory workers, members of the AUEW, were suspended by scheme agreeOr was the support from of ther outstanding feature of the TASS members raised E1500 the shop-fogr was supported by picketing pular strike bulletins. Donaamein from local ALEW and union members.

GCE Maryport factory made a Contrast this with the actions of TASS Divisional Council, who despite NOT ONE PENNY. Then there *es the sell ours:

Dinitional Council refused to sancа вте волод остова емалсі. * Sell oul No.2. TASS sewards jee coins man sHy ane proposed a strike of 30 members from key rest of the membership. Then the hadignored their advice', financial subpon was unlikels to be civen.

I wasoniy alter the dispute ended that the Divisional Coubal trade thic empty gesture of docating 275.

sell out No. 3a deciding that they could not control the dispate devoted theie efforts to getting a return to work. Against che voied by a small majority lo The reinstatement of the susgained, but the wider management umlaterally breaking existing grading agreements was left HICHAI CHICL The TASS Annual Conference this week will see proposals by the Execurive for increasing the power of the officinis. The Broad Lei. who are behind this move, stand opposed to rhe direcr election Full control by the rank and file union apparatus will be necessary if Yorkshire this week. "The NUT: primarily about pay Lions," the father editorial questions with the editor. The union's leadership is anxloat lo agree supporting the Social Contractl. It has just reached partial agreement wilD the press pooprietors and editors over The officials concedie mat coitors anast not be timerfered with, except by bosses who can desertine "basic edmortal policy and practices: and pronusine bot la discipline mein bers for anything they write.

BIAS issuc of What is at stake is the NUD's code of conduct, which conference resolutions demand should be the basis of any Charter, and in any CHSC be labour movement.

OCHIRLES also joucnalists is that those criticised in * The battle against racist reporting is the reason for an unprocedented mumber of complains a

page 3 of the scan

RED WEEKLY & ADdi 18T7 3

← Teachers back pay policy, but left growsPress freedom central to NUJ Conference →

Something wrong on this page?