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By David Maude
1972David Maude Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
did not vote, and 2,666 voted against).
Jack Jones: nailed raway's acceptance of the ballot result only comes after that, further down p. 163. And Mathews claims he made his statement: I will be back at work on Monday' speaking for the joint shop stewards' committee.
Seized on eagerly by press, television and radio, this statement helped send Dagenham back to work and led to Harraway's removal as chairman ol the rora convenors. 11. -By misplacing it in time, Mathews obscures the important point that it could have been used to influence the result of all four weekend meetings.
He also fails to point out that it was made on the basis of the secret-ballot result alone. Is this not acceptance of the union leaders' capitulation tical method of 'Seven Days' the paper Mathews helped found.
In its initial propaganda, this now - defunct 'revolutionary weekly' claimed that it would show 'in factual, precise and above all accessible terms what is wrong with our society'.
The paper's aim, its brochure said, was "to help people to discover the truth of capitalism for themselves, and to realize their own ability to take political power' Mathews' 'Ford Strike' reveals for the umpteenth time the bankruptcy of this muddleheaded liberalism.
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PACE 10 Workers Press, Friday Juno 2, 1972