Although they served their full sentences because retused to crawl to the bosses and 'purge their contempt 101 occupying the unfinished vessels in the Birkenhead yard • the Lairds 37 earned full remission for 'good conduct. and were releas ed eight days early.
Dooley, Joll Birkenhead Labour Party member, described conditions we were locked inside our crowded cells 22 hours a day. Paint was peeling off and there * was even shit up some of the walls.
Line warders were nol too bad. Some were obsympathetic.
There was a lot of respect trom the otner They were really made up when stayed in prison rather than creep to the judge to get out One of the prisoners asked remember them still inside for doing al sorts or lanes some not very serious. Many of will LICI years.
Cammell Lairds Support Committee 'So we're telling LIBe movement, the wil isten, just how bad it is for unose beoole mal.
On the previous Friday, Frank Field.
Labou for Birkenhead, visited some of the Lairds prisoners who lived in his constituency He admitted that it he'd been place he 'might have done
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the same thing' He explained he felt he had to oppose the occupation because "so many other aros workers wanted Lo go back to work' His explanation wasn't good enough for the 37, nor for the organisers of a march in support of them through the Liverpool city the same day.
Field's demand to speak in support of the prisoners 'as their MP' was turned down have supported them from une starl. Frank. late now.
The newly-released strike committee will have the full support of Wirral Trades Council. Funds are already being raised. and contributed to enable the strikers to lead the cam paign and be in independent control of it A picket will be maintained at Lairds yard, and a mass picket is called for every Monday morning at 7am, when the scabs try to cross picket lines under ponce escort.
This all official The strikers will be Ellesmere Port and Luton have been solidly behind a national strike which has closed their plants since 10 October. The strike is over the rejection of a 7.5 per cent wage offer from the company. The unions want well as a shorter working prisoned in Walton jail. topics of discussions. "This is the first occato gel sona support Iron company-imposed builders' yards like Hunters on vne where 2000 redundancies have lust beer announced — to build solidarity right across the industry.
They need the widest movement support — on the picket line and in hard cash • Contact: Cammel Lairds Strike Committee, C/O Unemployed Resource. Centre, Argyle Street South, Birkenhead, phone 051-647 6122.
Vauxhall pickets line at Hartlepool docks organising a "Bring a tin Carltons and Novas are WIll we've got to block off their to all trade and to respect our picket The miners have given must be extended ACTiON SOCiAliSt