Mersey dock steward: call for General Strike

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Trafalgar Square March to the Spanish Emb ИГ dock E BURGOS 16! OF FRANCO REGIME! MERSEYSIDE dock shop stewards aimed blows yesterday at both port speed-up and anti-union legislation.

endoned the sal for Ceneral Strike against the Tories.

A meeting of the local union-employer modernization committee scheduled for yesterday was made impossible by the stewards, who refused to allow their representatives to attend.

In advance Employer members of the committee - responsible for negotiating terms for the second phase of Lord Devlin's notorious docks speed-up scheme-were told that any future proposals must be submitted three days in advance in future so that stewards can discuss them.

Representing 10,500 dockers, the stewards also decided to call for an all-out strike against the Tory government's Industrial Relations Bill on January 12.

They added the important rider that they would personally lobby the Trades Union Congress on that day and 'demand that they call General Strike to bring down the Tory government'.

No agreement Negotiations on a Devlin Phase Two-type pay-andproductivity deal have been going on for some time in the port, but no agreement has been reached on any issue.

Latest proposals from the employers would have meant the overall wage bill staying exactly the same as at present—with a massive projected increase in cargo throughput.

The stewards' response puts employers, through attempts to force a spoke the port their terms using the jobs threat implicit in the financial crisis of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.

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