HULL

IN HULL I found dockers eager to give their views on the recommendations. Here are a number of comments from leaders and rank-and-file workers.

THE Labour government has got five years. It's got a clear mandate from the working class who voted it in. There is no other solution but nationalization. Millions of pounds are being spent on the docks through the British Transport Commissionwhy let private employers make a profit out of it?

Decasualisation shouldn't be considered at all. These proposals stink. We want the sort nationalization in which working JACK GALE REPORTS dockers control the industryactive dockers who know the industry, not people who have been in administrative jobs for 20 years but people who know the industry as it works.

Walter Stephenson (Branch 1, Hull NAS&D).

OUR area committee has not had opportunity, yet to study these proposals thoroughly, but from what we know of them they will be opposed by every docker. We personally particularly oppose the section which forces a docker to go to a particular employer whether he likes him or not. If this employer then turns this docker away, he has to re-apply to go on the pool.

What will happen to the old dockers and the C-men under this scheme? C-men are disabled or injured dockers, for instance men who have lost fingers in accidents on the dock.)

This obviously means redundancy on the docks. The answer is nationalization, not the sort of nationalization that there is in the mines, but nationalization run by the workers in the industry.

It seems that the national leaders of the unions have failed to fight, but we are sure there proposals will be fought in Hull.

Len Ludders (Chairman, Humberside Area Committee NAS&D), H. Lowthorpe.

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