AS THE PRINT workers dispute with Rupert Murdoch's News International entered its fourth week, SOGAT found its f17 million-worth of assets sequestrated. And anyone who thought that all-or-nothing demands to step up the action were exaggerated was sadly disabused. Now more than ever is the time to build mass action in support of striking print workers.
Thousands of angry women began to show how last Saturday, with the first mass • demonstration of the strike. Led by women from the print unions and joined by a vociferous contingent of Women Against Pit Closures, it was a big success. Speaking at a meting in Kent the following day, NUM president Arthur Scargill took up the same theme of total solidarity, demanding that the 'whole might of the trade doch's union-bashing strategy lessons union movement' be brought to bear against MurThe lessons of the miners strike are there to be drawn. The bosses and the courts have done that. Other newspaper barons have made it plain that if Murdoch wins they will follow suit in no time flat. Now the labour movement must draw those same and massively step up the action to defend SOGAT '82 and the NGA. The response of the TUC and other unions has already shown that the basis for extending the strike exists — and the SOGAT • AUEW • NUJ • NGA High Court has given the clinching argument.
good continuing the softly-softly strategy off . confining the action to News International must be launched if victory is to be won.
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It's up to the print unions to lead the way. No workers in a mistaken belief that keeping other Fleet Street presses rolling will protect the jobs of other print workers. To make the strike effective, the whole of Fleet Street should be brought out. That would stop Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the press sharks in their tracks. Mass picketting and a campaign of all-out solidarity strike action CAROL TURNER reports on solidarity with the consumer boycott cal ed by print unions again the four newspapel printed the After all, whi other good reason coul anyone have for readin that scandal sheet? TGWU:
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