CAMPAIGN GROUP OF LABOUR MPs WHICH WAY FOR THE LEFT? BLACK CECTIONS i the Labour Par RONT ELL OVER 600 sacked News International print workers held a mass meeting last Saturday 28 June to discuss the next steps in their fight to win re-instatement and union recognition at Wapping. Despite the decisions of the SOGAT national conference, the national leadership of SOGAT, and general secretary Brenda Dean, has done nothing to intensify the fight. It has simply decided upon a relaunch of the consumer boycott campaign. union leadership was underlined by the absence of every single London full time branch secretary from the platform of the meeting.
What Brenda Dean had done is to endorse the visit of electricians' leader Eric Hammond to Rupert Murdoch's Angeles Hammond had organised the scab electriTIL TIMES This inactivity of the national printers.
The meeting insisted that the only useful thing that Hammond could do was not galavanting off to the States but instructing to cross his members not the picket line at Wapping.
therefore adopted a further appeal to the electricians for this.
Nonetheless, the considered that NUCCULI Murdoch's intention to reopen negotiations showed that he was under pressure from the strikers. This Is despite the fact that the naARTHU