If army or blacklegs move meat supplies WEWILL STRIKE -say Smithfield men

LEN SMITH, T&GWU leader of the Market's 3,00 and drivers: 'If the dockers hadn't struck now, they w would have one later on the implications of Devlin? SOLIDARITY action with Briti is to be taken by Transport and Union members at London's market. The union's district CURI organizer Mr Len Smith, leader of Smithfield's 3,000 meat porters and delivery drivers, told day:

•We won't touch any meat handled by troops or any other blackleg labour.

'We've had a record of solidarity with the dockers over a number of years,' he MARKETS MARADID SOLIDARITY ALL WORKERS at London's fruit and vegetable markets — Covent Garden, Spitalfields, Brentford, Borough and Stratford — have been advised not to touch foodstufis handled by troops.

statement by the Central Markets Committee of shop stewards issued under the name of its chairman John Dorchester, T&GWU district official, stated that:

'We shall recommend to all our men that in the event of imported produce arriving in any of the London fruit and vegetable markets that has not been handled by port workersor has not been authorized by the strike committee — not to receive such produce Mr Narchactor told the VUILHESLEL rises were 'very perturbing'.

"The S African Board has put the stop on S African fruit, he said. 'On Friday some will be released on a Coventry. quota system. This has been done before to keep the price up.

"The press shouts about fruit going rotten, but there's oranges going runny contract out. and still they won't sell them' According to Mr Dorchester the warehouses are support the strike. stacked with S African produce.

The price of 56 pounds of onions had risen by 26s since last week, apples by 16s.

"In many cases they're the same loads as last week,' he in the group. said.

said. 'If they hadn't had a strike now, they would have one later on the implications of Devlin.' annual wage claims.

Only 20 per cent of meat handled at the market is im- DATA ported, while the rest is 'town killed'.

'If they use troops on the market, there'll be a strike,' he warned.

Already delivery drivers are being laid off by the employers.

'Our drivers won't go down to the docks,' he said. "They might as well go on social security and what they get from the union day a week, work for one rather than declaration company' Mr Smith was angry about the price rises that have been taking place since easy as lin's dock workers General Workers' Smithfield meat The wwwm.wr BLiTTER WU shop steward Mr John Brand told Workers Press yesterday: 'If troops are used t in this market the men won't touch it. While the dockers are in dispute we won't hav leg labour used. The troops are not members of the Transport and General Workers' U.

Rolls strikers call for ban on overtime ALL Draughtsmen's and Allied Technicians' Association branches throughout the Rolls-Royce combine are being asked to ban overtime in support of the 900 DATA members on strike at the firm's Parkside plant in for call backie one any BY A WORKERS PRESS Many DATA members' work which CORRESPONDENT the management might submeasures so far taken were All Rolls-Royce DATA sufficient. members outside Coventry are Strikers feel that the manbeing asked to pay a levy to agement provoked the dispute when it threatened them with he strike is important fo suspension without pay if they he whole combine becaus refused to lift their sanctions. the management replied to the a 25-a-week increase by ofer- 'A declaration of war' is certainly an apt description for ing 7 per cent to every factory the moves by Rolls-Royce and all workers in the combine must prepare accordingly.

Claims DATA members in the African students march Bristol and Derby areas had not yet even put in their against Tory arms deal ZAMBIAN students and students were attacked by youth stormed into the police using tear gas.

British High Commission Ugandian President Milgrounds in Lusaka yester- ton Obote has accused the day morning after a demon- Tories of offering a hand stration against Monday's of friendship and moral Tory statement on arms support to a racialist sales to S Africa. regime.

Demonstrators—many of the British government them from Zambia univer- considers the interests and sity — carried anti - Tory security of the rest of slogans. Africa, and particularly One read 'Britain has de- those countries in Africa clared war on us' and which are in the CommonDespite the promises of al another 'Heath, Hell. support possible from the After breaking through interests of the whitexecutive, the meeting was une a cordon around the High minority governments in Commissioner's grounds, the southern Africa? TRANSPORT union leader Jack Jones went out of his way to reassure the docks dispute inquiry in London It is plain enough that wealth, as secondary to the

wrong decision was reached at the original trial.

'If at the original trial there the Monday before the strike started.

'We can prove that while Prior [the Tory Minister of Agriculture] was touring • round the market on Monday, prices rose by 4d a pound.

"The retailers were very bitter about it. The Minister's reply was very negative.

Price stoppage 'Personally I think we should have had a stoppage, even if only for a day, in protest against the price rises. The working class is being made to pay as usual Smithfield workers were angry at the coverage of the docks strike by the capitalist press.

Meat porter Ron King told us:

"They're saying the dockers are holding the country to ransom, but what SE London