ROADSWEEPERS JOIN DUSTMEN'S PICKETS

Workers Press no. 9, 9 October 1969 · scan pages 2, 5

Topics: Post office and public services, Italy and Germany

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on Mersey ter Institute By John Upped ROADSWEEPERS joined the dustmen on Tuesday's picket duty at the Portobello Road depot, Kensington.

As our picture shows, they gave an enthusiastic reception to the Workers Press.

More and more workers— drivers, lavatory attendants, park keepers and gravediggers in the London Boroughs are now on strike for higher pay.

The demand for a £20-aweek basic wage is also gaining support in the provinces.

Walkouts have already taken place at Wakefield, Grimsby, Stevenage, Benfleet, Aveley and Canvey Island. Other areas are expected to follow.

With news of this increasing support the Portobello Road pickets expressed their determination to stay out until their full demands are won.

One worker gave both the council and the trade union leaders a clear warning:

'We'll not get: pulled into any productivity deal, we want f5 increase and that's all' ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE MEETINGS SWINDON Speaker: Frank Willis ung Socialists candidat in the parliamentary by-election Thursday, October 9 Penhill Common Room Tuesday, October 14 Reuben George Hall Walcto Estate Friday, October 17 Swindon Town Hall Thursday, October 2 Pinehurst Common Roo Wednesday, October Swindon Town Hall HULL 'Workers' Press an productivity deals' Sunday, October 12, 3 Carron House Beverley Road LUTON 'Support Ellesmere P stThrow out scabs' chi rter' Friday, October 10, 8 The Cock Park Square At an sPied government Forceficial contacts" with would The East German workers were the first to challenge the might of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Eastern urop little re thiet their bare aking on Soviet tanks wit from disaster by the Kremlind ruthless action.

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ENEMY

little democratic bath the salinist and common enemy the German bureaucracies are faced by working class.

The West German workers have just engaged in their first serious strike action for many years, while in the East there has been a continual ferment connected with the Czechoslovak events.

At the time of the soviet invasion in August 1968, workers, students and intellectuals demonstrated openly on the streets of several East German cities against the support given to the Kremlin's action by the Ulbricht regime.

We have only seen the beginnings of these manoeuvres between the bureaucracies.

On the same day that Ulbricht made his offer to Brandt, it was announced from Belgrade that Tito is to pay a return visit to Italy