B US M. iD N CA LL: And We Can Win It!
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° From Battersea strike committee Workers never sacrifice their weekly support on Monday we say: ‘Thanks. If wage packets and support a call to the working class stand together we shall strike action unless they ate convinced fase> speedy and just settlement of our they are fighting for a just cause. We must make up our minds to win this The 100: percent. solidarity of the Lon-. strike quickly. This can be achieved by don busmen after six weeks of existing on immediate extension. We are convinced the £3 a week indicates the conviction and de- masses of our membership agree with us termination in. the ranks. on this point, and we hope the decision Macleod tells us that he is looking for of the delegate conference will be reversed ‘a chink of light’. We , busmen are fighting in the very near future. for ‘a chink of money’ and we intend win E. A. DAVID (chairman), H. ning our demand of 10s. 6d. all round. .
SINGFIELD (representative), C. ; DRIVING DOWN. STANDARDS FEGENT (secretary)
The London Transport Executive and their masters the Tory Government. can ‘get tough’ if they like, but: we central Lon‘don busmen are not prepared to see 14,000 : of our comrades ignored at a time’ when : the Government is pursuing a policy of rising prices, increased rents and generally driving down the living standards of the section, National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers)
(LOSE on 100,000 workers are now on strike in London. This tremendous struggle is recognized by the employers, by their. Tory Government, by trade union leaders and by rank-and-file trade unionists to be the most critical industrial battle since the General Strike of 1926.
The Smithfield men are solid. The Port of London is shut down: -The busmen are standing as firm as the day they came out. And in all three strikes the issues involved are fundamental questions of trade union principle.
At Smithfield they are defending the right to full employment. In Dock‘land we are defending our conditions of labour against the importation of non-dockers, and at the same time are defending our right not to handlegoods that_a strike of other workers has placed beyond the pale. At the bus garages they are fighting against. an.attempt to buy off one lot of workers at the expense of 14,000 Quo