IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

Scanlon jumps wrong way

Red Weekly No. 76, 14 November 1974 · p. 11 of the scan · 245 words

The scan: rw-no76-nov-14-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 11 of the scan

miners must be slung off the Board Tefuses to take such action then the non-cooperation with these officials.

people like Miron are present, they if this fails to force the Government Clarke and their friends should also quarters the strike.

Rowntree Mackintosh factory in York has heen bit by a muss strike of produc Goa wotkers. Thousands of workers voted at a mass mocting last Monday to AUEV UNFAIR TO STAFF Scanion Jumps off the fence, but on the wrong side. The President of the AUEW was fleeing from office wor kers picketing his own union head Two hundred and fifty members of the staff belonging to APEX have bean on strike to demand a E400 London Allowancs pe yet. The AVEN, which as an employer of junior stall treats its workers no differently from capitalist firms, refused to negotiate seriously with its office staff, Honce A pickat told Red Weekly: Most ot the left press have been very friend ly, but for some reeson the Morning Star has been conspicuous in its lack of support." The reason is simple: when its favourite left trade union bunsquerat cropes the picket line the Star has some difficulty in explaining the reasons behind this to rank-andgave himself and other leaders a 40% wage increese not so long ago.

And it isn't easy to describe the AUEW staff as 'ultra-lefts" when one of the leading militants in the strike is the Labour Party agent for Hornery!

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