Shah menaces NUJ members
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THE BRUTAL back-stabbing it got before Christmas from the General Council of the TUC has led the NGA to decide not to resume mass picketing.
But it has started picketing the Stockport offices of the Messenger Newspapers group Eddie Shah, however, has threatened to sack the nine National Union of Journalists members who have refused to cross the NGA picket line for the last ATTACKED 'UNIONS ATTACKED' _ 45p plus postage from LRD Publications Ltd, 78 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HF three months.
Shah and his backers are always ready to step up their fight against trade unionism. Every failure by the trade unions to escalate encourages him. The TUC decision has led directly to the threat to sack the NUJ members.
The General Council of the TUC must be called to order. The minority on the General Council who wanted to back the NGA represent the majority of the TUC. A special TUC congress could reverse the General Council's cowardly decision.
That's why trade union branches should send resolutions to their national executives, demanding a special TUC congress and insisting that the executive supports the NGA.
The next NGA march in Warrington will take place on January 28 (not 22nd as reported in Socialist Organiser last week). POLICE swooped this week to nip in the bud a plot to give nuclear secrets to a deadly enemy.
A 23 year-old clerk has been charged under the Official Secrets