Dockers condemn Smithfield racists
By Ian Yeats
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Harmston, organizer of the 1968 Powellite march. SHOP STEWARDS at London's Royal Group of docks yesterday condemned attempts to make coloured immigrants scapegoats for the country's economic problems.
The dockers were expected to be asked to back a march to the Home Office tomorrow protesting against the admission of Ugandan 'We won't be there,' said one steward. 'It is probably a march organized by the National Front and they will get no support from us.
Some dockers stopped work four years ago when a similar march organized by Smithfield porters to the House of Commons But stewards claimed yesterday they were totally opposed to the march and that the Tory politicians responsible for the economic crisis were the men who should be hammered and not the immigrants.
"They're just like anybody else,' the steward said. 'We've nothing against coloured people but the government creates problems by letting them all get together.' Dockers' pickets at the Midland Cold Storage depot, Hackney, described the march as 'ridiculous.
Bob moon said: 'If dockers marched it would be as if we had gone up one blind alley outlet.
'The press and the Tories are trying to gee up racialism but it's diversionary just when they're uncing an onslaught on the trade TRADES UNIONS MEETING LONDON LESSONS OF THE DOCKS STRIKE Thurs, August 22, 7.30 Lister Room, Town Hall, East Ham High St St ruth. Speaker: Larry Cavanagh ( Liverpool docks steward, in a per 'sonal capacity). Adm. 10p
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