Socialist Challenge1979Socialist Challenge No. 116, 4 October 1979Building for By Tony Young, sTer and TWO building
Socialist Challenge No. 116, 4 October 1979 · p. 5 of the scan · 137 words
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By Tony MASS pickets vital to the defence of direct works throughout the country will take place in Wandsworth, Londog, next Wednesday.
Two sites are to be picketed — the location of Wandsworth housing contracts, which should have gone to the council's direct department.
The department is one of the largest and most efficient country, yet with the election of a Tory council these and other sites been handed contractors, notorious orre and Turriff, for their use non-unionised lump labour.
The sites have been shut by union action for some months, in spite of desperate attempts by the council and the contractors to defeat the pickets building workers and local trades unionists.
The Wandsworth Tories want to entirely scrap direct works, hence the importance of making the pickets on 10 October as big as possible