SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

NCU campaign against victimisations

· Socialist Action No. 169, 10 July 1987 · pp. 11-12 of the scan · 261 words

The scan: 169-jul-10-1987-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 1-4 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 11 of the scan

of NCU members following the union's national pay strike earlier this year was given a shot in the arm this week. NCU of those sacked and the lifting of disciplinary measures against other union members who were targetted by BT for their activity during the strike.

Golding was speaking at a special mass the union, where two members, John Deason protect our representatives at every level of the We do not deserve to have a union.' Golding was forced to make a specific reference to the red-baiting campaign orchestrated by BT management, which had to resign in protest against what the press described as a politically-motivated minority. The resignations had seriously weakened the union at a key time.

my mind that this is victimisation. This is victimisation of a straight political sort'. He the worst kind' that had found Deason, were ai inocent. THE CAMPAIGN against the victimisation general secretary, John Golding was forced to give verbal support to the reinstatement meeting called by the key London City branch of and John Treadaway, were sacked. 'If we do not union' Golding stated, 'we will not have a union.

been the occasion for the City branch committee He stated: 'I have not the slightest doubt in expressed opposition to the 'kangaroo courts of Treadaway and others guilty and said that they Estria. Te adopted a resolation pledging fo •paign against the victimisations.

UTY IS STREM over the victimisations.

page 12 of the scan

ACTION SociAlist DAY TWO OF OUR SERILL as told exclusively to Lynda tee-Potter ea The Ma to Read Jonn Edwards

← Scargill 'no' to six-day workingTGWU conference to back member one vote →

Something wrong on this page?