400 racists march to Home office

THE RACIALISTS took to the streets of London yesterday with a 400strong march to the Home Office to protest about the admission of about 40,000 Ugandan Asians.

One speaker at the rally which followed was Martin Webster, national organizer of the National Front.

Our front-page picture shows Webster and Taylor (in white overall) chatting before the march. Taylor earlier claimed the march was 'non-political".

But the only applause came from the marchers' Tory friends from the City and a handful of paper sellers and odd taxi drivers.

The Smithfield Workers Against Immigration Group run by Mosleyite Danny Harmston and Ron Taylor had expected dockers, dustmen and porters from other markets to back the demonstration.

When no workers other than about 200 of Smithfield's 2000 porters turned out to support a contingent from the National Front Mr Taylor commented: Its a bit of a flop at the moment.' Workers in Fleet Street where the marchers had gone to protest against alleged press distortion of the facts about immigration watched the march in silence.

Its a bloody disgrace, said one. "They're all National Front. Its the fascists':

Chanting 'Enoch for PM' and jeering and booing coloured people on the pavements the demonstrators marched four abreast to the Home Office where they handed in a petition demanding an end to immigration and assurances that the new immigrants would not be given homes and jobs needed by white people.

MORE TALKS were held yesterday in a bid to end the strike of 800 Merseyside docks clerical workers. oVIr job security and increased want assurances severance pay for men over 60 who will become redundant when two cargo handling firms merge and another closes.

They are members of the Association of Clerical, Technical and Supervisory Staffs - the white-collar section of the Transport and General Workers' Union.

Shop stewards were planning to put a recommendation to a meeting of the clerks this morning.