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A learner's guide to the lorry drivers'

Socialist Challenge No. 79, 18 January 1979 · p. 3 of the scan · 829 words

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1. This sign is to be found outside all large docks many depots and factories. It means lorries prohibited. It was made official by the Transport and General Workers Union last week.

The appearance of this sign has greatly disheartened the Emplovers and the GovernIssued committees, it informs flying pickets where they are needed and the numbers required.

3. Unfortunately for the Pay Policy, this sign -available from the Employers and Government to all those who challenge the Policy - has had no discernible effect on the lorry drivers.

IUC nas not com mented on this sign. In fact, it has scarcely commented on anything since the strike began.

4. This sign is a familiar recourse of the Mass Media when number 3 doesn't work.

It represents the burial of the economy and is accompanied by remarks about 'holding us to A 46 Lincoln strike Newark (Nottingham 48)

freely GIVE ransom' and 'starving us out.

strike 5. This kind of symbol has become necessary because of the effectiveness of the lorry drivers' pickets.

It indicates services allowed unhindered maintain essential aspects of working people's lives.

The significance of this sign is that it is issued by the strike committees.

The other article on this page explains cannot be seen on certain days of the week. ance, which is expected to be accompanied by that of the sign representing workers, adds to the damage being inflicted on Pay Policy.

The arrow indicates one of the turns roundabout. The best way of ensuring this turn, and thereby demolishing Pay Policy, is by Dunlong support taking action living standards. and more than are on the remove the especially the two drivers on the Southern HST increased They are also trying to force ASLEF into the NUR, where Pete they think its militancy will be controlled *But if ASLEF get the 10 per cent the NUR will go for it too. It's important to emphasise goods and pass order why this sign This disappearpublic sector the Pay THOSE to defend their A commuter sleeps in peace just before the strike.

manning, hostility workloads.

fight for participation.' serious emigrés.

iPeT Croatian Croatia occupation.

une central BOYCHICHE interviewed Yugoslav him diplomat.)

taken the Who remains The Italian in full: Ustashi in action GRANADA TV's in Action was once known as a documentary w nat remains of tnis repura tion disappears when the true story behind its recent film of Croatian nationalism is known.

The programme was straight PR for the Croatians. Military raids into Yugoslavia, kidnappings, murders, hijackings all these were forgiveable lapses on the part of these lovable What World in Action did not mention - - indeed was at pains to deny — is that the main organisations are fronts for the Ustashi, which ran a fascist government In the Nazi A number of emigré groups exist. but at a congress several years ago they agreed to accept cold Liberation Movement as the co-ordinator of the The programme claimed to expose Yugoslav secret police attacks on the Croatians. They man called Franjo Goretta who said that a diplomat had told kill CENCE Croatian emigrés. (In fact he killed the in Action forgot to mention was that, on the evidence of files by the Australian Attornev General's department Australian intelligence, Goretta was a double agent for Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood, another organisation set up by the Ustashi.

backs TERe Ustashi mystery. IS Dreams and nightmares THE Glasgow Sunday Mail recently ran a feature on nightmares. It asked a dozen well-known people to describe their nightmares.

Factor Claudia sympathies (she is a Communist Party sympathiser), but Empress Farah of Iran's nightmare and Mail comment deserve to be printed EMPRESS FARAH of my loved ones In the pained te armed with hatchet:

through the marble ball! lood who have history of using right-wing East European emigrés?

Bonn?Last year the Yugoslavs captured four top Red Army Fraction members In return for their extradition the Yugoslavs demanded that West Germany hand over a number of Croatian exiles Ustasha front. Despite enthusiasm for nailing the RAF the Bonn government refused.

*The full story appears in the 9 January issue of People's News Service, from which this information is taken.

RUMOURS have reached NfN that the National Association for Freedom is applying to the Charities Commission for charitable status. This would mean tax exemption for lots of warriors. protest should be sent to: Mr Weston, 14 Ryder Street, SI James, SW1.

'SELECTING a hero is like choosing a bride. First you hav to be attracted to her. Then she has to measure up to your ideal.

It was with this measurement in mind that we set foot in the office of the Trade Union Committee of the First State Ball-Bearing Plant, of Moscow's largest enterprises."

— Беги апо у renov Meet the Mishakins. Novosti Press Agency, Moscow, 1977.

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