violence to smash the picket lines.
his picketline:
been here all night.
Some of them between 6am and 7am.
We were all standing here, round the fire. It was a peaceful picket.
We got the backing of the THEOTHER BOOKSHOP 328 Upper Street LOndOn NI LAU New books by mail order Our Bodies Ourselves £3.50 A Piece of the Night Michele Roberts £2.25 The Alternative in E. Europe The Second Slump £6.50 Political Writings 1921-26 £3.95 Te uclear Disaster TERMS: add 10% under £7; £7 or more post free. How? By the continuing and increasing use of police senior steward, DRAPER from Scott's Bakery in Liverpool, described to 'Socialist Challenge' what happened last Friday at electricians and garage workers haven't into work.
There were just 22 scabs who went out in vans, with the aid of about 60 to 80 police who used the big stick and put the boot in. The incredible. They batons - not truncheons, big sticks — to keep us back.
There were three vanloads of the Special Squad, Liverpool's equivalent to the Special Patrol Group.
They kicked as though they were playing at Cardiff Arms Park.
STOPPED The inspector had told me to taketwo of thestewards with me anu socak tone vans so unree of us went over by the far side of .65 The first van was stopped by an inspector. I went over to RONNIE used their On the picket line in Birmingham speak to him and then this copper came up and just stuck one on us.
Two of them had a go at Joe, one of the stewards.
I said I'd complaig officially Tip and said that I'd better b sure of my facts, because my name would be on the complaint sheet They DET 8pm Club, Manchester North West strike committee.
Challenge in mind Shah remains intact. don't masses will get there first!
helped post from a Surrey comrade store once these aresold.
DIET several weeks.
how much you will whici nard.
Ourthanks this week to: Arnold Tortorella SPage Sharon, E London IM. Brennan Bolton supporters H. Khamis TOTAL BREAD Photo: SECOND CITY PHOTOGRAPHERS and I'd be in right. trouble if I didn't get things from picketing BENEFIT: Monday 11 DecemShaw Corbett St., and beaten Featuring Spanner in *Partisans and speaker from numbers.
Keel Socialist We need it This week ow total hit an all-time low since the June 1977: a mere £39 this week.
The cumulative total reaches £1161.03, and so the head of the If you hurry up the Iranian The pennies haven't been coming in, but supporters have paper, just out in other ways.
Mancaester comrades brouga in two entire albums of stamps Bal week. and ust alew days ago another album arrived by The Leicester supporter who spends many hours of his time sorting through the bundles of stamps will doubtless have more VIDELA financial benefits of the paper in Bernard Regan, the comrade BEGIN who has agreed to a nationally sponsored diet in aid of the paper, has decided to give his starvation efforts a clear run of SHAH He will now begin his diet after Xmas, so there is still time to send in your pledge saying give the paper for every pound of flesh disappears from BerSMITH £39 But I'm not going to be scared off from complaining. And we're not going to be scared off most.
The vans got out todav anc six of our pickets were arrested CUD morrow we're going to turn out in massive Each month this quarter we Postto PO Box 50, London NI when we 2XP. mave ser aside a ua ask all supporters of the paper to join us in selling on the high streets, at the bus stops or tube i stations, and on the estates.
If you live in a town where there are no regular sales of the fill in elow and we will send you a Dunce ovon asale or return basis to see if you can establish The threat to increase thi picket at Scott's Bakery was enouen Tor manneemen -ane they have now shut up shop.
But elsewhere managemen and police continue to mount military manoeuvres to smash the picket lines.
Bakers Union district officer Paul Sagoo described happened outside Parslows Bakery in Reading on Sunday:
While our members were negotiating with supervisors at the gate, a van drove into the picket une myuring one or oul The van in question was e police vehicle, one of two on the scene full of policemen. Two strikers are now in hospital as a result of this attack.
The pattern obvious. Wherever mass pickets gather the police do all in their power to smash them up.
Foralthough bread continues to appear in the shops, the truth is that the strike is having a big effect.
The large bakeries are losing custom to the independents. and with the Christmas season coming on it is custom they cannotatford to lose So the employers, with the aid of the police, are doing all in their power to smash the strike physically Accordingly, thestrike is now not just about the 5 per cent law, also about the right to picket.
workers need all the support they can get. Money, help with flying pickets, support on the picket lines are what is needed Organise collections in your workplace, send delegations to the picket-line, organise solicary in your umon branch Defend the right to picket!
massa tres percen Victory to the bakers!
NAME ADDRESS Please send me 10 papers on a sale-or-return basis.
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JOININ THE THIRD NATIONAL SALES DAY Saturday 9 December 1978
OF IRAN PINOCHET