BANG! illee. Ovir a thousand trade unionists turned out for a march against the troops last Friday in Glasgow despite the sabotaging actions of the bureaucrats *** Meanwhile in Liverpool.. partial defeat ***** aboul 16 hours in this protest ag ainst the Council's inability to move This demonstration was probably the turning point. The Council had cancelled a mectiog with the strikers on Thursday and looked set to make the call for troops on Friday. But after the protest the Council hurried ly arranged a meeting with the strikets for Friday. I was this meeting which agreed to the L2.63 ofler leaving it up to the full-time official to get the men back.
But the strike could have gone in a very different situation. On thursday evening, while residents were strewing their rubbish on the streets, Liverpool Trades Council was giving its full support to the strike. The Trades Council sent a message to Glasgow Trades Conell supporting its stand against the use of troops.
Purther. the Trades Council dechated its total opposition to the use of troops in Liverpool and called for a policy of non-cooperation and large scale strike action in the event of troops being moved in.
This resolution however remained a dead letter with the strikers almost as isolated at the end as they were when the strike began.
Although the press portrayed the residents action as being against the strike, this was not necessarily true. They were demanding that the Coun cil do something about loving the dump. The drivers abould Jave attempted to explain to the residents that it was the Council's refusal to Pay the drivers which was creating the alleged health hazard. Furthermote, the Liheral-controlled Council was refusing to pay because of the cut-backs in local government хровditure —this situation peing made worse by the extr cuts made by the Council so they could effect a lp cur in the domestic rate -a cheap clection gumick.
Already new housing estates bave become sluros because of the estate has had a number of protests ents demanded to be reboused in decent accommodanon and or 00 occasion picketed a building site demanding that no further houses be built on the design of those al ready standing. The bus service is inadequate and fares are to go up Hed noey er march 1300Page