The Labour Government have taken a cold calculated decisien to break the strike of the Glasgow dustcart After the Glasgow City Council had voted by 84 votes to 10 to ask for Goverment aid, Mr. Willie Ross.
Labour's Scottish Secretary promised troops would move in by Wednesday 19 March to start mosing the 70,000 tons of rubbish which have piled up as a result of the nine weeks' strike.
HAZARD Ross claims that the troops are only being moved in to remove a health hazard. He conveniently ignores the fuct that if a healtit hazard existed it is because the Labour-controlled Glasgow City Council has refused to meet the drivers demand for a LS a week extra payment to holders of heavy goods licences. This would give the duistcart drivers parity. with other driver holding an HGV lIcence-Liverpool dustcar| drivers are also out on strike for the same Not only has the Glasgow Council refused to meet this demand but it has failed to even start nepotiations on the workers demands.
DESPERATE The Labour Council is desperase To win tie stalke and defeat the Government sues of troops the following ac bons No peturn to wack until the hall demand a wet Immediate strike try all Corporation woken Lan emergen 9 Manch to call for a strike of all Glasgow worker The Trades Councit to convene a meeting uf all Claper shop stewarde and dee!
strike committee The Trades Coact es hall mur meddags of workan thronghout Chague: to organise support foe the strike Delegations of waken tolity Labour Mr and cousicilions to denesed the support the steike and oppose the Covenantef'e e of boops Steps to be takeo to niobilee ibe fait weight of the labour movemeet aelis the dirty to resolve the dispute. However, they are not interested—or more preciscly they are incapable of finding a solution. The spate of strikes which have swept through Glasgow in the public sector are a result of the breakdown of capitalism. They show the total inability of the capitalist system to maintain even the most basic social services needed to run the city.
Unless the workers responsable for maintaining these services can carn a wage that protects them apainst the ravages of the capitalist crisis then not only will the NHS and education fall apart but the whole system of public services will disintegrate.
NOT SECTORAL This is why the dustcart men are not fighting some lone sectoral battle. It is for this reason that the attempts of the Labour Government and their allies in the Glasgow Council-be they Labour Party members, Tories or members of the Scottish Nationalist Party-have to be fought right down the line.
When the Government considered using troops to break the strike of the Tower Hamlets dustmen in 1970 all the borough's manual wor keis stopped work. That put a stop to the Government's plans. A similar stop is needed in Glasgow meeting of Glasgow Trader Council being held on Wednesday Red Wendy 20 March 1975 Page 3