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Red Weekly, 182 Pentonville rd, London NI Red Weekly 21 December 1973 Page 8 Pickets and the successful blacking of copy around the country by the other print unions have prevented the publication of 13 weekly papers in West London, includ ing the Harrow Observer, the Middleses Adversier and the Middless Conny Times. Also hit is Labour Weekly, contract printed by King and Hutchings. OTHER GRIEVANCES The dispute has in turm brought other for the New York Herald-Tribune. Te print this, the NGA have been offered £1.72 on top of their current basic of L30.32. They are asking for 64.72. They are also asking for 04 of the E8 weekly guaranteed bonus to be transferred to the basic, which would gire them some thing approaching parity with NGA members at Thomson's in Watford, for example, who receive a 242 hasic. In five meeks and inch.
The managing director of K & H. Frank Barlow, has rold the NGA that sheet Jardship will get them hack on his terms, and dearly belieres he has no need to negotiate at all. That attitude is now ringing ever more holic Contracts are in jeopardy. and 500 other staff have to be paid, while the printers stand firm. Lasses in Ad vortising revenue alone must be near 21 The NGA have long suffered from the con sempt of the K& management, and now intend to put that right. Hitlerto, NGA Father of the Chapel, Inn Cummings, he been harassed in his attempts to attend to official union business during murking bours, which is scarcely the case in other major print shops. And the production managor Lea Greaves preteods not to know what the words "chapel or union mean, telling them that if they have an complaints they should write to the Queen!
Other NGA branches have sent donations to help the fight, which has transformed the NGA chapel into a force to be reckon ed with. Westminster Press will certainly NUJ UXBRIDGE BRANCH, MEMBER Michael Farrell, whose hunger strike along with fellow People's Democracy member Tony Canavan in Crumlin Road jall ear Ber this year promped mass demonstru cions which led to their relase, is now faced with a further term inside. He has heen instructed to appeid in court next month, when he will be ordered te serve & three-month suspended sentence Tor an offenice commited in 1970, Had this sentence been taken into account al the time of his last trial, he would have received a total of mote than nine months and would have been eligible for political the lack of which was the motive hon for this hunger strike, Now he as laced with more of the same.
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Farell to be Jailed Again?