Suppor on the Mersey
Socialist Organiser1984 1984-04-12Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 6 →
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LAST week the whole of Merseyrail came out on strike against two drivers being sent home for refusing to move coal.
Since then, British Rail drivers have not been asked to move the coat stored at the Victoria Dock, Birkenhead.
Attempts to move the coal by road have been countered by a regular picket line. Unemployed TGWU members and the Birkenhead Unemployed Centre have staffed the pickets. Joined by miners from South Wales and Yorkshire.
200 dustmen. themselves on strike over holidays and bonuses following privatisation of their service last year. also joined the picket line on one day.
The picket has turned away most union drivers. A few scab lorries ire however getting through. the council was to ever give way ... and consider the reinstatement of Ms Stokes, we would feel betrayed and totally demoralised in a way we cannot find words to describe.
The Labour Council was elected as a "left" council. But its refusal to take on the Tories is pushing it into taking on the council unions. NALGO is first.
Support for NALGO has been flowing in from the labour movement in Southwark. The Trades Council has on paper given its wholehearted support. NALGO has given full support at district and national level and strikers are receiving up to 85% of take home UCATT is meeting this week to decide further action in support Mass pickets are planned for Friday 13 April, with a local day of action and other unions being asked to come out in support. A march is planned from the Elephant and Castle to a rally in Peckham.
Messages of support to Southwark NALGO, 34 Peckham Road, London SE5. For more information phone 708 0232 or 703.6311 extension 257.
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also urged staff still at work to sign an anti-strike petition: "If