Adams: Sinn Fein will gain from SDLP The following appeal was sent by Socialist Outlook to Sri Lankan President D E Wijetunga last week:
•We ask you to immediately intervene to save the life of our comrade Ramond Perera. In Ratmalana on June 7. Ramond climbed onto the 107 feet tall chimney of the Associated Battery factory, where he is a worker leader, and started a hunger strike.
'We support his demands: Reinstate the five workers who were sackee tortowing the lockout of workers in March 1993; pay salaries for the 100 days of the lockout; granting of the loan of Rs 25,000 for each worker.
The management have refused to discuss with either Ramond's union, the Commercial and Industrial Workers Union, or the Commissioner of Labour.
"Ramonds' wife and their two little children are waiting in the factory day and night. His employers only want to take profits. We demand they