Defy the courts!
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-12-09Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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KEIN Feintuck is slightly. our in his report on the Literpool drivers who attempted to defend their jobs by picketing the docks against cowboy firms (Socialist The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board did sue them under the Employment Act, but the court preferred to grant the injunction on the simpler ground that the pickets constituted « a public nuisance.
However, what is worrying about this report is that the drivers have accepted the injunction, stopped the picketing, and decided to rely on the Court of Appeal. They should follow the example of the Laurence Scott workers and build a movement to continue their picketing. Every injunction which is accepted makes it harder to fight the next one. What will happen if the TGWU drivers rely on a legal appeal is made clear by Bob Fine's article on Lord Denning on page 3 of the same Socialist Organiser..
CAROL HOBBS, Bone and M-thad a witch hunter; (b) I took it for granted that SO stood opposed : to the investigation of Galloway and the proscription of Tariq Ali; (c) my article - some 200 words long - was necessarily less detailed than O'Mahony's 720 word reply; (d) Graffiti is a column in which informal.often personal - comment takes place: the editorial line of SO can be found under the heading 'Editorial'; (e) my remark that Tariq Ali's 'Marxism' is open to debate was quite charitatleto Ali - and took a great deal less space than O'Mahony's wordy reply!
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Socialist Organiser no. 65 December 9 1981 Page 1 mered plain