KerS memoers ano General workers union WIll nanoles increased in two The striTransport are last WEeK Dancey. blue was snown however.
SIX One has already been InIe DOlICE Loutine inev rare -nOw eviction of the workers, SGWU roor over mneir neaos suppon and money tives are not raised.
the film that TRE NETO! the the Oxford Student Trade Unior Catering workers in particular unionists who prepareo to none fo riont to oreanıse SnoulO TUsI resolutions of support [plus don Randolph Hotel Strike and Long Strike Committee. Both c/o Tran soon house, 4o cowey nodo simply seeking a new employer to long take over the tactory and guaran tee jobs. Their experience of workers control was not ted to ar understanding of an overall solu tion to unemployment.
The hmits or inis strategy wert demonstrated by the fact that within a vear of the first occupa tion the new bosses of IPD began to molement rcaundancics aral This was not simply mismanagement. in practice it exposed the weakness of the workers' previous demand for a new capitalist owner.
A final caption points out that if the Government's proposals for the introduction of a Criminal Trespass Law had been in force in 1972, this action would have been illegal and the workers would have lost ineir jobs. rernaps une greates use for this film is to build the campaign in defence of the right to take direct action and to defeat these proposals.
EXCELLENT Despite these reservations, the film is a useful and important starting point for a discussion or the tactics and politics of direct action. It vou get a chance to see it do. It will be an excellent opportunity to launch these debates.
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TENSIONS have strikes at Oxford hotels.
demanding recognition and rein- plush about 10 scabs set about pickets
incident the incident, no-one has yet been
widen official Although Lodge Hotel the
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