Branch backing for dockers
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THE following resolution has been passed unanimously the Lambeth branch of the Electrical, Electronics and Plumbers Trades Union.
"This branch fully supports the national docks strike for a £20 basic rate in which the dockers stand up for the whole trade union movement against the employers and the Tory government.
'We give our full support to all trade union action to stop the use of troops on the docks and call on the labour and trade union movement to force the resignation of the Tory government to be replaced with a socialist government pledged to nationalization under workers' control and without compensation.
We further demand that in the event of troops being used on the docks that the EC call out on strike all maintenance and contracting electricians. hat Devlin Phase Two reav FOR DOCKWORKERS to ask for extra payment for operating the modern systems of cargo handling now being installed in many countries is an 'uneconomic penalty to progress', according to a recently published study of containerization and other new methods issued by the United Nations.