Three High Court Judges - by now Infamous for their treatment of a young woman raped by Coldstream Guardsman Tom Holdsworth - will be putin the dock with Labour Ministers Rees, Healey, and Ennals, and Lord Elwyn Jones at a public trial on 18 July. The Trafalgar Square rally has been called by Women Agsinst Rape, whose picket of the High Court [above] recelved wide publicity in the Fleet Street press. More on rape next week.
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YOU MAY never have heard of D.L. Thomson, but miless vot were a very strange child you've certainly read their comics - the Jackie → In fact Jest about the entire range that children read between the ages of live amd 15. JOINT CLAIM This massive concern la very much a non-union shop, a policy which dates from the aftermatt of the General Strike, when th NATSOPA were kicked our or workers in to the street. Successive attempes ay the Scottish TUC in the earl 50s and from inside the offices i IS CHE US HE WEI CAULT!
Now plans have beco launched which may finally change this.
The first of these attenges is by the National Al the -Jourbalists. OTOC Schedule It of the Employment submitted a ACAS Pot 19 is kind of seriousness is united TOM will have alreads a significan -BLE re union policy. establishing the solidarity move ment as a major source of DICKENSIAN * Support for the new united For decades Troops Out Movemenr and the the staff at D.C.
Tribunal from The reminism and reinad workshen organised last week by century workers Nearly 100 peopie arrended the individuals included one from Trish women United and 4150 bonuses, Andersonstown Protection Act, any group of trade unionists can ciaim parity co-members elsewhere Jong as they are nat covered hy an existing collective agreement.
Now, with over a dozen NUJ members in Thouson's Glasgow office (all of whom are groued' the union has lodged a special claim for thus beller paid members at the Daily Record. If successful, this would mean a union card would entitle an employee, under the law, to a considerable rise in Line, all seven unions involved in the newspaper world have claim for bargaloing rights ar Thomson': Whiration service, it over 23 the Government's bent or the total Claspay workforce unionised, sucoess is guaranted la the crack would the company's ne Wille the treatment of Thomson has been righrly famous In the labour movement. Like nineteenth employees, all Dave negotiate arbitrary Christmas very cheap mortenge Dickensian air to the 2,500 HELP!
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Hastility to trade unions is so integral part of the Thamson etbos 'hard working Church-going' universe of vic torian Scotland. Even a moder victory 10T the principics o trade unlonise inside this yas and culturally influential comp any must make some dent on the smue parochialism which makes up the capi staple dier of Scottis LOSING Thomason's own unique Sunda Post is sleadily losing ground to the openly campaigning Sunday -Mail, which is straight out of the IPC instant newspaper kil The contrast between the two seen in thei cartoons. The aMall bas the Yin' modelled Солlovable 280I cheeky living in a Jorgotten world o bawbees and bairns SOCHICE COS 5801 workforce or slowly polioned by competitioo is a matter of in difference, More worrybig is the fact that the real comic charac ors, in the shape of the Thoms asses' will be living on until ne wack's instalment
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