Dock call one- day strike
By David Maude
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Our Industrial Correspondent A ONE-DAY national dock strike is now almost certain when union delegates meet in three-and-a-half weeks time 'high-powered the joint committo discuss the report of a tee into the industry's jobs crisis.
This week dockers' leaders are expected to demand shop stewards are represented on the inquiry team, which is chaired General Workers' Union secretary, and Tory banker Lord Aldington, of the Port of London Dockers plan to be at the T&GWU delegate conference in force anyway to make their feelings about the report known. One big port may bring 500 men to the mass lobby on a special A meeting of the national port shop stewards' committee the following Saturday will call an port's terms are unsatisfactoryne all-out unofficial strike if the reHowever, militants northern ports are disappointed and bitter at the outcome of meeting. of the committee in Birmingham on Saturday.
Communist Party stewards from London are believed to have voted against all three proposals before the meeting for industrial action.
Bernie Steer, secretary of the committee and one of the three London stewards who recently escaped jail over the container 'blacking' issue, refused to comment on what had been decided.
'We have nothing to say, he to reporters, understand that Steer and Royal docks CPer Danny Lyons had a great deal to say inside the meeting in opposition to all forms of strike action.
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