Huge support for turkey strikers
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STRIKERS at Bernard Matthews turkey processors in Norfolk have been receiving tremendous support.
Over the past week, backing and sizeable donations have come in from local branches of the National Union of Seamen, ASLEF and the Yorkshire At the moment Matthews is refusing even to speak to the strikers, and will not reopen pay talks. Shop stewards have agreed to reduce the claim, in an effort to get Matthews to negotiate. It is now 15%, Matthews is offering between 5% and 8%.
Matthews has tried an Edwardes-style threat to the strikers' jobs, and has lied about the number of people continuing to go into work.
in London on May 8, called by Labour Committee on Ireland, IWA, TOM, etc. To sponsor the demo write c/o Robert Jones, Box 353, London NW5 4NH.
MARXISM London Workers Socialist League classes on basic Marxism. Next one: The general law of capitalist accumulation. Friday 19 March, 7.30pm. For venue write to PO Box 135, London N1 ODD.
WOMEN AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE At the Adult Education anc Extra Mural Studies Dept., Leeds University on Saturday March 20. Registration (£1 waged, 50p unwaged) from TUCRIC, 6 Blenheim Terrace, Leeds 2 (Tel. 39633). Cheques payable to TUCRIC.
WALES Anti-Apartheid Movement conference. Satur day March 27, AUEW building, Sardis Rd, Pontypridd. Registration: Secretary, WAAM, 33 Romilly Rd, Cardiff (phone 382846). 'THE SOVIETS': conference organised by Iranian StudPickets have beęn on the gates 24 hours a day, and• report 30 crossing the picket line, mainly management -not the 300 claimed by Matthews.
Workers at Twydale Turkeys in Driffield, Yorkshire, have decided to black any processing coming from Bernard Matthews and NALGO has also advised meat inspectors not to cross the picket line. TGWU members working in cold stores are blacking Matthews turkeys.
Extended
This sort of blacking must be extended to win the dispute. Donations are also important as the strikers ents' Association - 'Left Platform'. Speakers include Branka Magas, Hillel Ticktin, Ahmad Ghotbi, Duncan Hallas, Pete Goodwin, Michael Cox. Saturday April 3, noon to 9pm, at ULU, Malet St, WC1. Fee £2, advance booking to ISALP, 72 Gordon Rd, London W5. NO TO NUCLEAR weapons - youth demonstration in Nottingham, Saturday April 3, 12.30 Old Market Square. Carnival 2pm, Concert 8pm at Manning School, Gregory Boulevard.
SOCIALIST Labour Group public meeting. March 20, 2pm, Room 3D, University of London Union, Malet St. 'Rebuild the Fourth International - perspectives for Trotskyists after the Moreno split. Admission £1. International speakers from the leadership of the Fourth International (International committee of reconstruction) NO TO 4%! Public meeting organised by CoHSE Hackney branch. Wednesday March 24, 7.30 at Centerprise, 136 Kingsland High St, E8. Speakers: Michael Meacher MP and David Williams. were particularly and have no savings.
Send money to Bernard Matthews Strike Fund, c/o The Landworker, NUAWW, 308 Gray's Inn Road, London WCIX 8DS.
JO THWAITES