Help the Printers Win!

J VERY trade unionist worthy of the name unhesitatingly supports the struggle of over 100,000 printworkers for the 40-hour week and a 10 per cent. increase in wages.

The numbers involved may be small compared with Britain’s total labour force; but the principles in- — . volved are the property of the entire Labour movement.

A great number of trade unions have gone on record for the 40-hour week. Others, like the miners, are faced with unemployment, which the introduction of the 40-hour week would help to alleviate. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF MARXISTS If the printworkers are defeated in this struggle it will be . a defeat for the entire working class. NEXT YEAR .

Every serious worker who faces facts knows that the print- AN international conference open to all revolutionary workers can be isolated and defeated by a combination of parties and groupings that are seeking to build Marxist powerful reactionary forces, who believe the time has come to movements in their countries is to be held in the autumn ‘teach the printers a lesson’.

of 1960.

The printing employers, the newspaper proprietors and the ink manufacturers, supported by the Tory government,. are This is announced in the July-August issue of Labour . engaging in an operation which is a threat to the whole future Review, which will be ready in a few days’ time. of trade unionism in Britain. The international conference is being called by the Socialist Labour League in association with the International Committee of the Fourth International.

The purpose of the conference, says an editorial entitled ‘In Employers choose to fight