MERSEY SIDE MASS PICKETS AND MORE LINKS BETWEEN
1959The NewsletterWilliam Hunter Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
MERSEYSIDE’S largest and most militant labour demonstration since before the war wound its way, 2,000 strong, round Liverpool’s main shopping centres last Saturday. view.
Only the coming together of the various disputes committees * The Charter of Workers’ Demands adopted by the National Industrial Rank-and-File Conference on November 16, 1958 contained the demand: ‘An end to the practice of squandering union funds on large motor-cars . Union officials to travel in. cheap, economical vans, carrying loudspeaker equipment for factory-gate and other meetings, and with the name of the union prominently displayed.’
ree can provide a guarantee against sell-out, now that the frenzied search for a ‘formula’ has begun among top-level union WATFORD LIAISON JuLty 11, 1959 Many of the delegates—who came directly from factory level but with only one or two from each factory—had come equipped with figures and examples of pay sheets ready to argue it out with the union president and secretary.
One knitter from Liverpool’s Bear Brand factory said his wages had dropped in recent weeks by £4 per week. In his opinion the management was now pressing home its advantage