Impressive march by London men

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Hull committee retreats on £20 A MEETING of fewer than 500 of Hull's 3,700 dockers was today persuaded by strike committee chairman Harry Spavin to mandate their docks delegates to seek a basic £16 wage.

Spavin explained that the whole docks delegate conference had been mandated before the strike to claim £16 and he asked for that to be repeated.

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The application of the ban on such an important report as Pearson's — containing vital information for the dockers' struggle — reemphasizes forcibly the necessity of the campaign to demand that the Workers Press is admitted to the We call as a matter of great urgency on all trade unionists to submit resolutions to shop stewards' committees, union branches and trades councils demanding the lifting of the ban. LONDON DOCKERS rallied in an impressive display of solidarity when they marched 2,500strong from dock gate meetings to Tower Hill yesterday. PHOTO and if adhered to could split Hull from the other ports.

The vote was taken before many dockers realized its implications. When some of them argued that this undermined the £20 claim, they were told by Spavin that a vote had already been taken.

'Flexible'

Spavin-who in 1966 introduced a Moral Re-armament film at the dockers' club told the Hull men yesterday that the delegates, of which he is one, would have to be flexible if the offer was slightly less than £16.

They could not tie T&GWU docks officer Mr O'Leary to a delinite figure, and that it the delegate conterence voted to accept less than £16 they would have to go back to work.

The entire No. 1 docks group area - including London, Tilbury, Felix states. stowe, Ramsgate, Shoreham, Newhaven win Dover, some of them outside the dock labour scheme — are out on strike.

But platform speakers E and W Europe. both at Tower Hill and earlier outside the Royal Group of Docks made little lations also or no effort to prepare their audience to meet the Pearson Report.

While dockers' pickets expressed their complete hostility to handling perishable cargoes on any terms, No. 1 docks group chair- ber, Andrei Gromyko. man Maurice Foley told Royal dockers he had informed the Port of London that if the of the day gave that prices would a deal at its own by law such Prefar we're conwe any group outside the and the Soviet Union.

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