ROBERT WATSON (right) and the lorry which killed him (above)
ANTI-STRIKERS heckled by counter-demonstrators.
and mainly women - took to the streets in Liverpool, Bury, and Oldham last weekend, DEATH came to a striking lorry driver last Thursday, the wheels scab-driven truck.
It happened on the picket line at the Shell UK Exploration Production depot A pereen.
An eight-ton lorry refused to stop when it went into the depot. As it left, Robert Watson and picket went up to speak to the driver.
He sped on, leaving Watson larger, crushed under his wheels.
The hysteria machine cranked up by and the 'popular' press has yet to find a single death -or animal — caused by strikers' action.
Yet their message when lorry driver is killed fighting for a decent wage is quite simple:
Stop your bullying and get back to work.
* Pickets can look forward to imprisonment National Front government.
That was the message from PUBLIC LORRY DRIVERS SOCIAL WORKERS WORKER, IN DRIVERS.
Y'RE STRIKING S OF US!
COUNTER-demonstrators supporting the strikers hit back in Liverpool did Tories, and indoors. demonstration ended shocked and vociferous John Tyndall at the annual conference last weekTyndall declared: When we human take over government, as one day shall, the moment mobsters try by intimidation to prevent British workers doing their jobs, those mobsters will find themselves in police cells quickly won't know what hit them.
Many do know, though. It's called fascism.
ND though one cannot fault the effective picketing of the lorry drivers themselves.
must learn the lesson of involving their wives, that they not left The media can more easily women that, as Photo: TONY MEEHAN "housewives', they are the victim of strikes, when the workers movement itself helps to reinforce the same division burnes Women's groups in Liverpool are preparing to organise further marches and meetings to counter the anti-strike.
Socialist Challenge 25 January 1979 page 5
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FLORRY DRIVER EARN 253 a WEEK IRANSPORT TRADING PROFIT: £437 MILL NOT THE BLAME THE BOSSES SEWIVES
SKERS the wives of the lorry drivers;