MESSAGES of support/correspondence financial donations should be sent to: Bro. Jim Davies, 19 Scorton Road, Liverpool L6 4AS. Please make cheques payable to "Merseyside Shop Stewards Appeal Fund" and Warehouse Union shut every port on the West Coast of North America. The Danish port of Arhus shut for 24 hours and in Copenhagen, dockers walked out of their canteen after hearing Micky and Sylvia Tighe describe the Liverpool struggle.
Dockers at the Swedish ports of Gothenburg, Stockholm, Malmo, and Helsinborg stopped all shipping to and from Liverpool and Sheerness. There was also action elsewhere in Europe, and in South Africa, India and Japan.
Liverpool has become a symbol for all dockers determined to resist the threats of casual labour, mass sackings, and the deregulation of their industry.
Despite massaged profit returns it is clear that these actions are seriThe TGWU has given the dockers money -- though far less than would have been made available in an officially recognised dispute. Instead it has tried to promote a settlement as an "honest broker".
Their latest project has been to arrange for a study of proposals for a labour supply company. Confidence in the study on the part of the dockers was not high - given that the company employed to do the investigation was heavily implicated as agents for the Mersey Docks in the undervaluing of Medway dockers' shares.
The overturning of the Executive statement at the TGWU BienOCT 12 Unity Organised by Southall Monitoring Group Unity. Assemble 1p.m. Dominion Road, Southall. SUNDAY March for
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