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A WEEK LAST Friday officials of the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers (NUHKW) told their 15 members sacked from Glencroft Knitwear (Glasgow) for joining the union that the union's support for the dispute would continue until November 20th, but then be 'reviewed again', depending on how much support came in during the intervening three weeks.

But since the beginning of the dispute, three months ago, the union's support has never gone beyond financial support and a half-hearted attempt to get Glencroft products blacked at airports. The union will probably make no attempt to mobilise real support for the picket lines during these three weeks, and then use the lack of support (for which they are themselves to blame) as an excuse to ditch the dispute.

Challenged

This underlined by events at the November meeting of Glasgow Trades Council, where Glencroft was once again on the agenda.

letter from the NUHKW District Secretary handed to all delegates referred to "the genuine disappointment of my members that greater numbers have not been in attendance (on the picket line)" , but when the District Secretary was challenged as to why he did not call on the Trades Council to help organise mass picketing, days of action and blacking, he ducked giving a direct answer and talked vaguely of the illegality of such proposals (he is a member of the Communist Party).

'In effect he spoke a load of rubbish. All he said was a lot of riddles — he hummed and hahed and ended up by saying there delegate summed up his pertormance.

An appeal to the Glasgow labour movement through the Trades Council would have mobilised hundreds, if But in spite of this renewed offensive by the scabs and the police, the union officials fail to build support for the picket lines. Their only idea of increasing the numbers picketing the firm is to tell the 15 women that they must now drop the shift rota for picketing and instead all turn up 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. (The union officials themselves are now however a rare sight on the picket lines.)

Effective blacking at the airports and real mobilisation for the picket lines must be organised now. And not just in order to deprive the union of any excuse for ditching the dispute, but because that is the only way the dispute can be won.

Donations

Donations to: NUHKW, 44 Kelvingrove Streett, Glasgow. Picketing: Monday to Friday, 7.30am4.30pm, Glencroft Knitwear, 128 Ingram Street.

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