BAC STRIKERS TO ATTEND RALLY

Workers Press no. 708, 8 March 1972 · scan page 10

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The story of how they searched far and wide for the march, spending pounds in the process, is a real tribute to the spitit and determination embodied in the Right-to-Work campaign.

I was very upset when they told me at Bolton hospital that I'd fractured a bone in my foot. The next day in Liverpool the doctor said I'd broken my toe and I had to rest it for ten days, Margaret told me.

'I told the doctor about wanting to get back on the march. He was quite sympathetic, but when he said I should go in the van I didn't like the idea. I wanted to march.

'Our mother was upset when we came home after only four days and she tried to help us in every way,' added Ann.

Then Margaret explained the fantastic lengths she and her sister went to before making contact with us again on Sunday.

'We tried everything to get Men at been four wage DELEGATION of workers from the strike-bound British Aircraft Corporation plants in Lancashire will come to London this Sunday for the Right-to-Work rally at Empire Pool, Wembley.

the BAC factories have on strike for almost weeks in support of claims.

to send the delegation to London and to pay all their expenses. This fine gesture is being made despite the strikers' own difficulties in raising support in the trade union movement for their strike. he decision to support the campaign followed a speech to the committee by a leading Liverpool trade unionist who is backing the Young Socialists' jobs marches.