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LORRYMEN SCAB ON

By Rex Henry

Workers Press no. 5, 3 October 1969 · scan page 2

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The need for vigilance is underlined by fresh news from Moscow 'leaked' by Victor Louis, a Soviet holds sway - the Union included. By Robert Black RIDLEY ROAD, Hackney, London, where on Wednesday dustmen who began the snowball strike action through 14 London boroughs began to clear rubbish from the street.

This famous market The strikers want a basic £20 wage - they claim the resent £15 Ys. basic is not a iving wage.

Some of the rubbish which has piled up in Hackney's Ridley Road is to be removed because of the health hazard to a nearby primary school.

Picket solid

But the dustmen's picket on the rubbish was not On Tuesday night lorry drivers working for contractors refused to break the picket to take the rubbish away.

Four tipper lorries and a bull-dozer had been hired by

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