Over a thousand people marched through itself. Chelmsford on Saturday March 25 in solidarity with the sacked 105 busworkers.
It would have been even bigger if the TGWU leadership had not clashed the demo with the big FACE event.
Over a hundred people attended a public meeting addressed by Paul Foot organised by the strike committee in the continuing campaign for reinstatement.
Solidarity
More marches and pickets must be called by the busworkers with the aim of getting other trades unionists to Chelmsford so that we have the numbers to close down the Eastern National depot.
It is now essential that the sacked workers take the running of the dispute into their own hands. There is a very real danger that the free bus service - useful tactic though it is - is becoming an end in The key remains solidarity action throughout Badgerline and the bus industry. The 105 must continue to speak diBy an NUJ member The successful NUJ Sheffield demonstration on April 1 is a victory for the left's campaign to turn the union outwards.
Marking the first anniversary of the dereconnition at the Sheffield Star the rally was addressed by union rights campaigners, Including Arthur Scargill.
The Shettield attack was a crude attempt to crush collective organisation in the wake of protests over health and safety. The management have victimised rectly to other busworkers to TUC, 87 Milday Road, secure support and to pressur- Chelmsford, Essex CM2 ise the TGWU leadership into ODR. Telephone: 0245 giving official backing. 263727 Messages of support, re- Cheques should be made quests for speakers and do- payable to TGWU nations can be sent to: (Chelmsford Bus Drivers Roger Welsh, Chelmsford Support Fund).
Greg Challis and Julia Armstrong for continuing to hold chapel meetings. The demo follows hot on the heels of the protest march outside the Murdoch plant after the sacking of Today sub Maria Hoyle. The NUJ is making union rights its top priority as part of a growing willingness among activists to fight the anti-union laws. The issue Is fast becoming a key line of divide in the labour movement in the run-up to Labour's general election manifesto. This will give us opportunities to gain an even bigger hearing than the Fiaht for the Right to Strike campaign.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 81, April 8 1995, Page 5