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LEADERS of the 8,000 Pilkington glassworkers at St Helens, Lancashire, yesterday angrily denied allegations retailed by the press that the six-week-old strike there was being kept going by 'organized thuggery' and 'terror tactics'.

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A lively discussion followed BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER split the strike, which has already cost the car employers dear and is now affecting the building industry, came together with the Tory-inspired search for the great pre-election witch-hunt story.

cipal Workers' shop steward Mr Bill Bradburn and others had only to call a press conference at the union's headquarters in Liverpool — some ten miles from St Helensand the big lie machine spluttered and lurched into *Hoth the Daily Mail and Bradeny are hind extenso.

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The 'Express', however, excelled itself with a piece blatantly designed to whip midd'e-d'ess behind Heath.

A cunning juxtaposition conjured up a picture of possible government subsidization of Maoist-influenced strikers.

The Daily Telegraph' reported Bradburn's remarks alongside a claim that £88,000 in Ministry of Social Security benefits had been paid out to strikers' families up to the end of last week.

Right-wing former Labour MP Mr Desmond Donnelly was featured as asking what the welfare state was coming to 'when strikes, official or unofficial, are being subsidized by thousands of pounds from government funds?' 'The Times', , rapıdly carving out a name for itself as one of the enthusiastic witchhunters, combined inaccuracy with vagueness.

Inaccuracy was taken stage further with a claim that Pilkington's f3 interim bonus offer would bring average earnings to £33 for 465 hours, but the vagueness -'the violence of the clenched fist'-remained unjustified.

A score of pickets were pictured outside one of the smaller St Helens factoriesThese fresh attempts to Loyalist General and Muni-