The strike at Imperial Typewriters Leicester is now entering its third month.
Race Today has been asked by the strike committee to set up a Solidarity Coordinating Committee and a num ber of action, have been planned A constant picket has been thrown up around Imperial Typewriters showrooms, opposite Russell Square Tuhe Station, London. On Wednes day a mass picket has been planned for there and their other showrooms across the country MASS PICKET On lt July the strike committee have called for a mass picker of the factory, and it is expected that crade union members, Immigrant organisations and sections of the revolutionary left wit ture out in force for chis picket A demonstration bas been set for 2) July in Desaster. This too danld pet the anion movement.
All possiblo resources bust be mobe lised to hack these actions. They car, by their size and power, Jotluence those people still at work. They can develop solidarity actions by other workers They kers and their families Trade union numbers shonk be patding down resolutions of suppurt for the sinkers-members of the TOWU must insist that the strike be made official Donations should be sent from branches, slop stewardi committoos, trades coun cils and Labour Parties.
To win u strike you need money and a vet can oe use To aid this tight, These workers have been denied strike pay. The Social Security has sod every dirty trick in the book in deny them benelit. By refusing to lafone the DEISS that there is a dispute at Imperial Typewriters, the local union bureaucrscy i helping the employers to starve out these workers. Financial help from the working class movement can provent this INTERNATIONAL ACTION Imperial Typewriters is part of the American melf-national combine, Littan. ahich owns 1660 plants in 32 countries. Litton also owns Adler and Triumph typewriters as well as Olyiopus basinos machines. Other Erns owned by Litton include Sireda business niachines, Vao Norstand Educacional Publisbing and the London Office Machine Company. The way to make the company bleed and give in is Ly extending interna bional solidarity actions like strikes and pickets of their world-wide factories, and showroums. The International Marxist Group has written to the Utted Secretariat of the Fourth International asking it to organise actions against (be Littan combine lo every country where it exists and where the FI has a soction.
The courageous fight of the striking Asian workces is a battle for trade union rights. It challenges racism-inside the company and the union. It is a struggle fo the rights of women. By its solt-organisation it has shown how workers con fight the power of the capitalist lins, the reactionary union leaders, the press and the intimidation of the police and the National Front.
These are the roasons willy sheolute and instinting suppurt must be given to this struegle