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DEMO BACKS HOTEL WORKERS

Red Weekly No. 188, 24 February 1977 · p. 2 of the scan · 316 words

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redunfactory of ITT Creeds noted Ineir memoers ver late in the day about the 14 February nay of of tie meeting they did cal / of action, and gave very shor really needed is a belong to a union rather than halt neared cals To days of action. Such action would an immediate increase cemane tor ine brocucis and a concentration of the whole a TROUGH industry in In the meantime, workers such as those at Brichton need to continu especially resist ne anemos or inE employers to make the workers via redundancies, for a crisis for which they have no responsibil OVER 350 PEOPLE demonstrated In Oxford last Saturday in support of workers at the Linton Lodge and hancoion notes who are 1900 for meir loos ano tor me out t A strong delegation came to the demonstraton mom me arosvenor House Hote in sheree where a similardispute is taking place Oxford demonstration was called by the local trades council, they nothing mobilise for it and oniv a handful ol delegates turned up. It was left to strikers and their supporters Oxford Trade Union Liaison Committee, to omanise ano maron in une face massive indierence -INE union bureacracy. Forte owners of the Randolph anc Grosvenor] spite of Jones's ultra-cautious view tha such blacking might be illegal.

District Oroaniser of the TGWU Geoff Hulett, admitted that he was trapped in the union's apparatu and that there was nothing more h could do to influence his superiors.

pressure from Oxford and Sheffield alone is no longe sufficient to force the trade union leadership to support the strikes but trade unionists throughout the country can force the otticials t move ov actine in suDon of nei fellow workers Blacking is already effective ir the West Midlands and is being organised in Norwic After 13 weeks the strikes ar

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