this framework other decisions of the conference can help further take the offensive against Murdoch. The conference projected special 'days of oycott' as well as aiming thé Saturday IRass picketing different groups of the laboul movement in turn. Until now, no direct appeals to support of the movement have been made by the SOGAT leadership.
Such an approach can also help make clear, put pressure y Norman TUC general secretary Willis' sell-out approach. Willis had been a major force in putting together Murdoch's jobs-formoney 'final offer At the SOGAT conference Willis groaned and moaned about the so-called 'limits of circumstances'.
SCLEL reality 1S that the TUC could finish Murdoch off with a flick of its tail if it put as much work into informing mobilising the ranks as it has in trying to force a sell-out deal on the sacked printers.
took the printworkers 18 weeks to wın tne nauonal union lo clear strike aims. A good ing, 11 June mineworkers should get their money back.
But the implementation of this decision was immediately put off. Arnold will remain in situ in order to pursue his 'breach oI trust' case azainst Ine union leadership.
NUM lawyers have appealed on the grounds that SUN BOSS Rupert Murdoch has responded rapidly to printworker militants success in winning their union conference to support stepped up action at But in his court action aimed at resequestrating the print union funds he admitted for the first time the impact that the mass picketing at Wapping is having in his ability to get out his papers.
The court affidavits made by Murdoch lift a corner of the curtain on the massively increased costs required to keep fortress Wapping producing and distributing News International titles. It throws light response by the rest of the Labour movement to the clear abpeals now coming the SOGAT conference can help build supwhole Street.
Murdoch's success to date has been used as a stick to dramatically worsen conditions of all Fleet Street printers.
The discomfiture of. the journalists at Wapping are straws in the wind in this regard. As is the clear instruction by the NUJ leadership to other journalists not to handle scab copy Despite Dean and Willis's offensive the union ranks have been able to hit back.
Ine lories, tne courts and the police obviously understand this new reallty. All the evidence points to stepped up police alTreks the tacks particularly Kinning, Park mass pickets. The naming of individuals formally responsible for organising the picketing in Murdoch's afBill Freeman, naavits Chris Robbins, Mike Hicks and Mick Britton • is a warning in this regard.
Mobilisation by the THE 18-MONTH long theft of the National Union of Mineworkers assets ended on Wednesday morn- but only briefly. Justice Meryyn Davies, who appointed receiver Michael Arnold in the first place, ruled in the High Court that the the two conditions demanded by the courts HavC been meL NUM tunas are returned trom abroad and new trustees have been appointea. labour movement at large for the mass pickets at of Uays boycott of News International papers are number one priorities.
The decisions of the biennial conference of the the taluul Pillll Vl0 F Society of Graphical Allied Trades (SOGAT '82) registered a major sucfor printworker LEON militants who had spearheaded the succesful campaign to reject Murdoch's ( £50 million "final offer'. They won the national union for the first time to endorse the aims of reinstatement and union recognition. Previously, general secretary Brenda tu 'It is nonsensical that should conthe receiver tinue to exercise control funds, Peter vel Heathfield ouT told Socialist Action. 'We have complied with the details of the COUL order that the trustees be replaced.
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'We all feel that it is time to return to normality Taue tiar Contmuc Will Women print workers cheer the result of the SOGAT ballot to stay out Dean and the majority of the national executive had considerec such guals lu be 'unrealistic'.
On this basis Dean was even forced to formally back comprenensive proposals for intensifying the struggle - including SLCU ped up mass picketing at the two scab sites at Wapping and Kinning Park in Glasgow. As a price for her acquiesence this, Dean insisted on a motion effectively restricting such escalation within laws.
Agreement to this contradictory demand Dean was a necessary compromise lo make. now be decided which of Peter Heathfield the costly exercise which Arnold undertaking Our lawyers were contldent that the receivership would be lifted:
Thousands marched two years ago at Joe Green's funeral the contradictory decisions of union conference will predominate Murdoch's court initiative is an attempt to exploit the contradiction. Dean will of course try to limit the pickets and action.
The recent events are on the side of the militant SuaKe leadership. The ballot only won Intougn a sharo turn to ln• volve the ranks in the running of the dispute — [Of organisation of the series ot mass meetings and the formation of the London ¡laison committee to coor dinate stepped up action