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20,000 bread sho propaganda, GEOFFREY SH workers' movement to take High Streets.
The strike by 26,000 bread work which began on 7 November alre looks like becoming the most bi confrontation over the Governme pay policy since the Fire Brigades Un was defeated nearly a year ago.
While the 'independent' bakers w normally supply a third of Brita bread have stepped up their produc (and prices) the press and the police doing their best to help the large (a highly profitable) bread companie resist the demand for a 26 percent rise.
ARRESTS displaying their enthusiasm for tak on strikers, who happen once again t among the lowest paid. Pickets h been allacked and arrested outsid least half a dozen plants.
Coupled with reports of increa scabbing 1,108 Bakers Uni members have disobeyed the strike according to the union; twice number according to the bosses will evidently require the active sup TAYABALI KAPASI: The bai job's hard, hot, and very fast mov
TRADE UNION CONFERENCE 2 tive to Callaghan: nd WORKERS' CONTROL 1 Phil Asquith, executive member, with a speaker from the Iranian trol, with Carl Brecker, Hounslow ttee and treasurer of 'Fightback' sonal capacity)
Digbeth Civic Hall, Birmingham. Union Conference 2, PO Box 50, WHAT IS IT?...
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be sapped by the barrage support from other militants.
done with outside help.
he considers, offer. SDCCIdE consider the progress of the strike.
employers' And while there is no doubting the determination of the large majority of bread workers, their morale can readily o1 press propaganda and the lack of visible Tayabali says he hasn't seen anyone from the local trades council on the picket line, and the task of leafleting the High Streets could only effectively be Linking up with other workers who are against the 5 per cent is a good idea, and he agrees that it would be worth sending a deputation td the Ford strikers at nearby Dagenham Healso hopes that - unlike the bread workers' strike over bank holiday pay last autumn — this one won't be settled without mass meetings to consider any deglegate conference is to be held this Saturday to mass Its decisions will hopefully help to wipe the smile off the faces of the emnse ves discussion federation.
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FOOTNOTE on the bread bosses' policy of persuading us that the white sliced loaf is the best thing since soft Tayabali Kapasi, who T've never had bread like the stuff that goes strikers to participate in the bread workers' picket lines.
These are the sort of measures that are necessary. And if the Ford shop stewards committees are to build such action, there needs to be much greater involvement of the rank and file in the running of the strike.
This means regular and democratic meetings where the strikers union - can decide on the conduct of the strike. And insist on t20 on the pay and one hour off the day, with no *On Monday night shop stewards learned that Ron Todd had approached Ford for further negotiations, without any mandate from the union side of the Ford Joint Negotiating Committee let alone from shop floor workers.
At the Dagenham shop stewards meeting on Tuesday, there was concern inal ine strikers were about to see a repeat of the 1971 settlement, when the Beaten SIDES TEMOTEU SUIC negotiating committee This once again emphasises the need for a recall of the Coventry conference, which originally formulated the claim.