Four hundred people turned out last Saturday to support the Garners" Steak House strikers" solidarity march through Central London, reports MIKE TAIT.
Now in its 16th week, the SEBAC STOLOCEINSLEHICTEOE 84 workers sacked for joining Ine- Transport and Workers Union. The workers are demanding union recognilion and reinstatement.
Arthe Trafalgar Square rally afler the march the chairperson of the strike committee reneated the issucs which have made this dispute the Grunwick CURCUHNE (28.49р TUIE 55-hour week; the sacking of an employee for the unauthorised cating of loialo, complcte refusal by management to accept the union.
POLICE Grunwick was very much in whe Trades Brent Council told of an incident on the Carner's picket.
A police officer said to him: *1 am against the union and гесссію • • Scene from last Saturday's ULC strikers.* The cop insisted on TEHEC CaIUS presented to him allowing people to join the picket.
But the most iluminating Tom spont Was he onedelivatid bay Todd, organiser of the TGWU and number twa to Moss Evans. He had clearly learned a lot about Grunwick and was reminded of NOW EGA workers and thair supporters block Euston High Road. that dispute by heckling from the crowd Todd said that the TGWU had made every endeavour lo gct management round the table', Garners was an aurack on the Employment Protection national Act, he declared, omitring to mention whether it was also an aftack on the Garners" workens.
me went bito sa) that ne did not believe the action to trolled picketing' ago, the LIUSCE hip say that if the such Cinrners all unions.
STEM TIDE Socialists as chance of organised labour Forte Committee Henriettu WC2. Toid wanted effectiee cog mias mas: picketing The TOWU is paying f6 week strike pay. Over a month union bureaucracy TLUOILSE Apparently the union leadei imposed 9,000 other can in dispuie might-demand the will - ignoring the fact that STRKCT recognition and that this is traditionally given priority ir and state by well must recognise that unless we take the Garners seriously there is no £35m pushing the movement into stemming the tide of the recent sethacks at Grunwick, uroges anu lna mogk Unless we have the strength af purpose, there is bttle poin Ostensibly in laving the blame elsewhere.
Donations and messages of CAPReTS c/o 12/13 Streel, London story, Missi es. terrain company', dest launch ACTOSaREE poldshausen.
SAUALIUE lished article King of Shaba IF THE Shaba rebels in Zaire find their way paste Kolwezi, to the north west they discover the strangest territory in Africa. On the maps it looks like any old bit ol Zaire, Dut the 10,000 square miile are to the north of the teoth parailel bordering Lake Taoganyika 1s run like a sovereigr OTRAG, a West German missile comany.
Zaire dictator Mobutu Jeased arca in 1976 for around Espresadented contract. The 11 31 population is subject to the company's legislation and law enforcement. The company can exclude anyone it chooses from the concession, bich is also a free customs zone.
CHIC company's husiness is testing cheap rockets for communications ar weather satellites for sale to the Third World countries.
The West German Government, backed up by Washingtob, has always repeared this but top OTTICIRES TOIO PEDEROUNC ТCПОn er Tad Szule thar the company was Jeting cruise masaics ano Intermediate Range Ballistic It seems thar west Germany is using OTRAO to circumvent the 1954 ban on its development of nuclear weaThey have yer to cxplain wh • photographic blow-ap of CHEC BENIEAEELITEEOITIC stand at the 1977 Le Bourgel air show. US specialists reckon the missile was flying over African taX exemption in West Germany And why the finst OTRAG was proceded by teste at the German national The second major launch was due to take place this month. It woLld De such 9 ouly iil wefi delaved becamse of the political Foreign Legion THANKS to Penthouse (not a journal we are in the habit of thanking) and other (inchading our own) extensive details of the OTRAG concesshave already been pub LILIE One paper which has been less enthusiastic is the ubserver pressurise the British Empire to decolonise.
One author who submitted a riece to African Contemporar Record, edited by Legum, wa surprised: 1o SCC the article appear with all references to thi CIA CHI Legum has acquired considerable reputation as an objective commentator o0 Africa, and Is the Observer's Forcign Edicar. As a token of that high esteem he has addressed the US Senate Committee on Foreign RelaHoDs AEDcan BuD-comunICe the Royal Defence Collegc, the College the Military Acadery in Camberley and the NATO Defence College Rome.
LALWD WAS DOC DE INC sournalists who usod material from the bow-defuoct Information Rescarch Department - a government propaganda agency used to spread dirt on Fastern Europe and the left MUUULT 10E papery including the Leveller, carried Stonec on the ik when it was wound up recently. So did the PIX LENC SURUE reason they didn't bother to inclade the Leveller's list of journalists who had received IRD material.
All of which leads us to conclude that Legum has an axe To Ernu, wnose 1s uL!
A5 IF the Communist Party dido't have enough problems with the crisis of the Morning Star, the recent CACLUEEST committee of the CP reported that membership has nOW falilen to 21,145.
This is a drop of 4,148, or 12 Pet cent, t toe мх was Trom the 1977 Congress when the party's LDLTSID 25,293- The adoptin; new British Road to Socialisn seeins to he having a drumatic effect.
Spot the piper THE CAMOUFLAGE nei which the mass media has throwa over thie Irish strugale bas evidentl: not escaped the attention of Derek Jaracson, editor of the Dally Express mistakes and distortions in LISINE Inelanu! Jameson, former siter of the TULIT Commums Leacuc's Tais Firemn ester atis
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