Mersey demand for Gen. Strike

DESPITE DESULTORY reports of Merseyside's massive and remarkable display of class solidarity on December 8 in the local press, the reverberations of industrial war must have also filtered through to Merseyside employers as they inspected their docks, sites and factories, immobilized by the 100,000-strong walk-out. the demonstrations and these are comments from some of the many delegations of workers on it.

JOHN SMITH, national execufive committee member of SOGAT Division A, who lec the union's delegations on the march:

•After this demonstration we must get the TUC to organize General Strike against the Bill. So far they shourders are doing moment nothing!' Off fence JACK RIGBY, AEF convenor at Vauxhall Motors, Ellesmere Port, where 14,000 workers struck against the Bill:

'We are demonstrating today to destroy the Bill and kick the union leaders off the fence. The next step must be a General Strike organized by the TUC. Only this kind of leadership will mobilize the whole of the working class.' JAMES PARWIN a construction worker from the Unicam's site at Kirkby, one of the many NW sites shut by the stoppage:

'The fight should be directed towards kicking out the Tories and getting a Labour government back to pass socialist policies.' JIMMY BURNS, a shop steward at Girlings, Bromborough, who carried the factory's striking anti-Tory banner on the march:

'British workers can bring this government down. This was nearly done in France and we can certainly do it here. We must kill the Bill by forcing the TUC to organize a General Strike against the Tories.' LES BROOKES, convenor of the body plant at Ford's, Halewood, where 13,000 car workers supported the strike:

"The next step must be to force the TUC to fight against the government and the Tories as a whole.' JOHN NELLETON, one of the many seamen in port who joined the demonstration:

•We have been under penal clauses all our working lives and some of our members have been jailed for taking action. Now the Tories want to do this to the whole of the working class and we must stop them. If the workers get together they can bring this government down.' DORIS HOLI, a laundrette worker and a housewife:

'After this march we want no more half measures from the TUC. It's a General Strike or nothing now. This government has got to go.' 60 L WOMEN 57)

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OFF THE UNIONS Women workers with an unmistakable message after Tuesday's two-hour strike meeting in Nottingham (below). Delegates from seven local pits after a march with a similar purpose through