IMGpapers

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

BBC offices

Red Weekly No. 32, 21 December 1973 · p. 8 of the scan · 512 words

The scan: rw-no32-dec-21-1973.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 4-5 of 5; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 8 of the scan

The workers" demand for implementation of the "equal pay' provisions under Phase 3 are vitally important in this dispute, as over half the work force of 320 are women.

Under the slogans of We demand the right to work: Equal Pay Now, The Petticoat Way to Equal Pay, Maclaren Shows the Way: No Sackings-Open the Books', and "We are here to stay we won'l go the Chile way?, the occupiers have been mobilIng working clam support in Scotland. They have taken ovel the factory for their own purposes-the second floor office, cupce on Tuesday last, serves as a mans A lockout of 160 printers of the National Graphical Association (NGA) in Usbridge, genis and the right to work. The Tory Government i destroying these richts for Oght is crucial in the fight against Phase 3. every worker in the country If we can take on ITT and wis, we can all take on Heath. Maclarens wurst win." The most important job now is to get effective blacking action of all work produced as part of Maclaren's contract either direct from the factory, or in production cisewhere. Moves to establish a combine committee are under way, as are attempts ta find out the most important ITT subsidiaries for blacking actively.

Since FIT wants to isolate and demoral he the warkforce over Christmas, the bouring factories, and so on. If also means preparing a counter-offensive, Maciarcos have moved thair office staff to an undisclosed location in the town. When this i discovered it should he the target of a series of more pickets involving as much of the working class movement as possible, Pressere or dus nature will make sure that ITT do not dare to go in with the hoot, The actions of solidarity which have so taken place, and the determination and enthusiasms of the occapiers, make it cerlain that Maclarens on win: it is up to the working class movement co make cerCain of that cetory and turn it into a vitory agxinst this whole Goreroment grievanoes to the Fure. K & H are currently installing a new new which will be used Chilean lorry-owners leader Leon Villarin, who publicly boasts of his role in bringing down the Popular Unity government carlier this year, was chased through BBC offices af Bush House on Wednesday when he arcived to de a recorded interview Despite the short notice his itinerary in Britain as in the rest of Europe has been kept a close secret 50 demoustrators were wuiting when he artived at 11 a.m.

four meetings with the union at national | million. level, the management have not budged an with the military junta, and Velarin out," they pursued him Inside Bush House up the stairs, into the foyer. and then into some more offices where scuffles broke out before he vanished out of sight.

After a further quarter of an hour the police arrived, whereupon demonstrators read out a statement in tbe game of the Chile Solidarity Campoigo to the BBC stalf who had Shouting Down rathered, and then dispersed

← IMG Statement on London BombingsSIREWSBURY SMASH TORY ATTACK Independent action the way to win →

Something wrong on this page?