ALL-LONDON SUPPORT FOR SOUTH BANK STRIKERS
By Brian Behan
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. HIS is an historic meeting. This isthe first time we have had in London such a big gathering of building workers round a dispute. It should settle the argument . whether we want a rank-and-file committee to organize ourselves:and struggle: against ‘the employers." ~*~ McAlpine does not want a works committee on the Shell-Mex site, because a works committee would represent a united trade union movement at site level.
This is not the first occasion that Sir Robert McAlpine has done this. On the Isle of Grain McAlpine persistently refused to accept normal trade unionism on his job. If McAlpine is the enemy of the trade union movement, then the official trade union movement should declare war on McAlpine.
Because unemployment is developing in the building industry these employers cannot get back quickly enough to the ‘good old days’*when you drank your tea out of a dirty mug and had no cantéen.
(Continued overleaf) (In a speech to last Tuesday’s demonstration of central London building workers)
Rocket Bases Campaign Forges Ahead ‘BLACK THE SITES’—N. LONDON ENGINEERS London (North) district committee of the Amalgamated Engineering Union is to send a resolution to the AEU executive asking it to use all power at its disposal against rocket bases, even to declaring work on them black.
Cambridge no. 2 branch of the Amalgamated Society of