DEMA Election address for Bob Purdie, IMG candidate for Glasgow, Queens Park, stuck up on window of occupied Maclaren's factory. The workers told Purdie: The other candidates have been here once — to get our vote. The IMG is here every day helping our struggio." Half the signatures for Purdie's nomination papers came from Maclaren's workers. WER DEMAND Maclaren's Controls in Glasgow has offered the facilities of the factory to the miners, including the use of telepliones, the canteen, and dup licating equipment. The committee has informed the NUM that the premIses could be run as a strike col ordinating centre, as a base for the organisation of picketing, and for a publicity campaign in support of the miners? The offer is being discussed by a number of miners lodges.
subsidiary of the International Tele15 weeks apo after the management had initiated a systematic campaign to smash union organisation, and this week a mass meeting rejected a management proposal for 150 redundancies, with only nine workers voting in favour.
A contingent from Maclarens joined the student grants demonstration in Glasgow earlier this month, and regular collections are now heing made in local factories, with a con scious attempt on the part of the The occupation of Maclaren's, a occupiers to link their fight with other struggles against Phase 3. the issues presently before the working ciass movement," a leaflet states, "the Tories attacks on living standards through incomes policy: the attacks on the right to picker al Strewsbury: and the Government's national lockout to try and isolate suppoet for the miners.
We at Maclaren's recognise that if these attacks are to be beaten back, the leaflet continues, it will be by the combined efforts of the whole movement. This means that struggle must be won and every struggle supported."
that no more of then amia? was to be moved.
The area organisation of the NUS in Gateshead has voted to throw open all student facilities to the miners to assist their struggle. But so far nothing has been done by the NUM to take up this offer, Bureaucratic constraint is a discap the factor in the handling of strikers social security claims, It seems clear that a number of deals have been made between both local and nea NUM officials and the Management af the Dept. of Hoalth and Social Security (DHSS) lo koep the Clai mants Waions out of tho soone, and evon to avoid claining for the fist fie weeks of the strike In 1972, as a result of thorough arganisation, multant tactics and the li aistance of the local Cluments" anion, 24D of the 400 single men on strike in South Shields managed to get supplemen tary benefit, This was a considerable victory since. technically, unmarns alt kers are hot crulled to hensrits and the clains were won through using soction 13 of the 1971 Act dealing with urgent needi cases. But today the strikers claims com mittoos stablised by the local lodges ase excluding local claimants unions, and the lodges are not adequately preparing their members to deal with DESS officedom, Some amantied strikers at Muckron Coke Works ane heen advised by their claims committer not to claim bonefit Tor tee wocks, This advice seeies to be widespread, and the claims contmittees are Tailing to hebradegantely for wital benefits local Labour candidare, Mike Fuller who was present at the meeting.
Job MoGawan brought the fraternal greetings of Kout students to the meetine and re-affirmed the importance of students fighting and winning their own struggles in the battle against the Tery Boyernment, as this would be the best heip students coald give to the miners. He emphased that the Cating of a general lection in no way diminished importance miners" strike, whose victory would be a victory lor students and the labour movement, Jack Collios called for unity around the miners to replace the Tory government with a Labour government com mitted to socialist policies He said that the TUC's decision to allow the miners to be treated as a special case was a great , dissertice Id Lie trade unioo movement He called for unity with other sections of the working class, and repeated a cal that the miners should not go back until the Shrewsbury workers were out of jail.
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