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without any aggro' Adams drivers who make regional five years ago when attempting to take prices.
unionists profits; DRIVERS who toured the South-west last week to the Transport and Union. Oil tanker drivers in GWU threatened to boycott racketeering garages, and succeeded in cutting prices.
At the beginning of the week, one garage in Teignmouth was charging £1.20 & gallon. Wednesday, after union interyention, the price had come down to 99p. On the same day, the union discovered at 4.30pm that a BP hadni ded the price of a gallon of diesel furite £1.50. By 6pm it dropped to £1.
group. secretary, says: 'We told the companies, Either you'll get these prices down They did. All the cases of over-charging taken up by us have been solved acknowledges that the regular deliveries to the garages can readily monitor their prices, but he is concerned to stress:
'We're moderate people in the South-west. We wanted to stop profiteering, but we would run into problems if we kept it up too long Some of the militants would want to be judge and jury, controlling everything. ' A fate worse than death, no doubt.
But the message has not been lost in the South-west. Adams describes the number letters of support received at the 'astonishing'. perhaps more astonishing is the rarity of such action by the labour movement.
The previous occasion in Britain was some warenouse workers Allied Suppliers in Glasgow refused to make deliveries of lentils because the firm advantage of a shortage by selling old stock at newly inflated Having waved goodbye to the (relatively toothless) Price Commission, and now looking forward to further bonanzas from the Tories, the City would have a fit of apoplexy If trade exercised control over Manipulation of prices and supply fattens as the Chilean workers appreciated government. a big General action to reduce them By the CUlA manipulators.
oil opposite direction. pocket its share. handed out to the Stock Market. tanker when they took action to stop black market operations by store owners during the Allende The producers and distributors of goods — workers — together with those who consume the bulk of them-working class people-are ideally placed to monitor pricellevels, and to take Boycotts, pickets, and the like would make a sharp impact on the retail side, but when it manufacturers and giant monopolies, such as the oil companies, local effectively As the following article shows, the profits of the oil companies happen to have leapt up during each 'oil crisis'. Nationalisation under workers' control would put a stop to that. The Tories, surprise, surprise, are moving in the so chunk of Be wil be They want the City