[Edmund Baluka was recently jailed for five years…]

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Edmund Baluka was recently jailed for five years by the Polish talinist regime. They have offered to release him if he is prepared to leave the country, which he will not do. Get yourunion to send a protest to the Polish Embassy in London, demanding his release. 1792184 - POEU engineers (to fix two of his three phones which are now out of order), and of the mechanics hrnusht in to fix Saccomando's ev 115S JUV D wage-slip machine.

The weekly mass pickets are continuing: Though they have not increased in size - about 60 oI 70 turn out - they have become much more pickets of rank and file trade unionists and Labour Party members rather than just the far Left.

The attitude of the police to the mass pickets has also notice-: ably hardened.

As winter sets in Saccomando's vulnerability to picketing and blacking is rapidly decreasing. He has already lost the Saudi Arabian order which used to be his main one during the winter months.

This makes it all the more vital to step up support.

Donations/messages to: TGWU office, 216 West Regent St, Glasgow.

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THE TUC got no joy when they met Tebbit last Thursday, 29th. Their offer to discuss 'voluntary'-trade union reform was turned down by Tebbit, whose new Bill is already drafted. They told him of their fear of a tight legal straitjacket on the unions. He told them he manted a loose rather than a tight straitjacket - but it couldn't be too loose. Afterwarda, Len Murray got up off his knees, dusted himaeli down, wiped Tebbit's spittle off his face, and told the press that the trade unions' offer to Tebbit had been "honourable and honest" TUC meets Tebbit