Angry scenes as dustmen confront police

Workers Press no. 25, 31 October 1969 · scan pages 2, 5

Topics: Police and the courts, Post office and public services, Communist Party and Stalinism

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THERE WERE angry scenes outside Manchester Town Hall as union officials tried to persuade 250 striking dustmen to obey a police ultimatum to disperse on Wednesday.

The strikers had climbed onto the Albert Memorial opPosite the town all chanting. tached'.

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at the Water Street depot and rejected calls for a secret ballct of the 900 cleansing department strikers.

From the meeting they marched to the Town Hall.

As the march was led past the Town Hall into side streets the demonstrators stopped, turned round, and marched back to the Town Hall.

Police order

It was then that the police ordered them to disperse.

There was a general distrust of the union officials and many strikers wanted to remain until the results of the talks were known.

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