The strike and occupation by fifteen immigrant workers against Pakistani employers at the Daily Jang International in East London is now in its fifth weekwith chances or a setuement looking mcreasingly remote. Trouble began after workers Joined the print workers union SOGAT and demanded £45.84 for a five day, 40-hour week, instead of the E35-42 they were being paid for a six day, 48-hour week.
It is now clear that the Pakistani proprietor, millionaire Mir Khalilur Rahman, 1s directing me manaeement a stan An agreement was worked out with the Advisory Concuation and Aroitation ber vice only to be rejected from Karachi two days later.
Much of the meaning of what is at issue in the strike was summed up by a Pakistani leader who told the Daily Teleraph: "How can we ask British managements to be fairer to immigrants when our own people are much worse?" And indeed, the owners of at least 20 other aprant papers are known to be watchig the outcome of the strike. A victory ing through these and other sweat shops, where small-scale immigrant capitalists exploit the members of their own communSupport from the outside at Jang is still weak, however, and it is vital that this is developed to allow the Jang workers to occupy the print rooms and bring OUL Z TEURE SUKC CULLION LO WII SUDOUL! for their struggle in the immigrant comMohammed Akram, community relations officer at Strathclyde, and Mrs Jan Elliot, a community relations worker in Huddersfield, spent three months-not 16 days like Mr Hawley-looking at the system for vetting dependants in the Indian sub-continent. Unlike Mr Hawley, who visited six posts listening to the views of immigration officers, they visited 60 villages checking out 58 cases of immigrants dependants re-