INTIMIDATION on the Burnsalls picket line reached a new level on 26 May when scabs attacked with iron bars, a wooden stave and a Stanley knife.
One striker defending his throat, suffered a severe cut to his left hand and may lose the use of two fingers. to the head and was also hospitalised.
Throughout the year the strikers have stayed defiant against vicious atacks, maintaining the picket and refusing to bow to racist insults and regular physical assaults from owner Jimmy O'Neill and his The 19 strikers are calling in inversary tally on tues day 15 June. Labour move ment delegations, black organisations and community groups are welcome to the picket from ipm and there will be a rally from 4pm - 6.30pm.
It is about time that this herole ycar long sauggic Tor health and safety, an adequate wage, equal pay, union recognition and an end to harassBICHIL and abuse management was brought to a successful conclusion.
The strike needs to be escalated. Despite the widespread support for the strike it has not been enough. The factory must be drained of work by popular. ising and spreading the boycott of Burnsall's goods. Mass pickets must be organised and quickly.
The strike must be made a 'cause celebre' throughout the labour movement. The injusrooftops. We need the same king or massive solanty that has been shown for the Times workers in Scotland.
It is unfortunate that one of the GMB officials has gone into print labelling Outlook upporters as no better than O'Neill's scabs and strikebreakers. We call on the GMB to reject this kind of crude witch-hunting and get on with winning the dispute.
If the full might of the GMB and the labour movement were brought to bear the strike could be won. Let the energies of every labour movement activist be concentrated on the proper target - beating O'Neill before we have any more casualties Contact the support groups on 021 551 2258 (Birmingham), 071 713 7907 (London). ourselves to be one. Too often their own demands, which are a part of the struggle for socialism. and every campaign and struggle in which workers and the oppressed fight for their rights. left currents can work together for common oblectives while remain. ing free to debate their differences get active! YES, I agree with much of what I have seen in Socialist Outlook, and want to know more about readers' groups in my area. Name .. Address. Phone. Send to: Socialist Outlook PO Box 1109. London N4 2UU a mass revolutionary party can be built simply by proclaiming this degenerates into sectarian posturing and abstention from the actual struggle taking shape within the labour movement, playing into the hands of the right wing.
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EUROPEAN Assembly of the Left Paris coach leaves London 10.15am details 081 800 7460 Saturday 12 Lobby NATHE special FE conference 10.30am Britannia Street off Grays Inn Road London ARA/TUC march against racist murders 11.30 Norbury Park Norbury Avenue Croydon SAVE University College Hospital 1pm Mornington Crescent tube and Pit Closures Saturday 19 TIMEX Mass Picket Dundee LESBIAN and Gay Pride: demonstration noon Victoria Embankment; festival 3pm onwards Brockwell Park south London Sunday 20 ANTI-APARTHEID Movement: march 12.30am Hyde Park; rally 3pm-5pm Trafalgar MASS demonstration and rally Parkside Colliery Newton-le-Willows Monday 21 PICKET appeals of M25 three waged/22 unwaged from Foreman leads Canon employees in morning exercises copled from Japanese bosses SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 44 June 12 1993. Page 15