screwed out of the DHSS has been because they staged two occupations and refused to move until some payments were made.
They have seen the police operate on the picket line. One policeman stood on a striker's foot then said move on threatening to arrest him if he didn't. As the strikers say: " The police are always nastier and more brutal when there are only Asians on the pickel lines. When the TV came down, the police kept quiet and let us do things that they had stopped the day before.
ERIA to the dispute.' The Inquiry bas been held but its findings still remain unpublished. This means that the strike remains unofficial — no strike pay, no soldarity blacking actions, no use of the union's resources. This delay can only help the employers. It enables them to maintain 50 percent production and they Hope the strikers will be starved back to wurk.
IMPLICATIONS
The political implications of this strike are immense. The ruling class know that if they are going to solve their problems they must smash the working class. They know that they cannot defeat a united working class — hence they try and use every division inside the working class, In Oxford they tried to use Mes IL TYPEWRITER CO. LTD • A DIVISION into jobs involving shill work. isolate black workers even more. Black workers invariably get less pay, work longer hours and suffer more industrial accidents in proportion than white workers.
They have less chance of promotion, get less apprenticeships and often are shunted At Crope Sizes, in Nottingham, Pakistan workers had a standard week of 84 hours Do overtite was paid. AL B. Jaffe, in the same Some groups of black workers, despairing at the racism of the union officials, and sections of the membership, have set up separate "black unions'. This has not solved the problem. Where this has been tried -"Quick Deal' Bradlord, RAAS union at Preston - it has led to debacle and defeat.
ISOLATE fought for.
Despite their impertections the unions give protection to the working class. Splits in the unions would weaken the working class and What is necessary is that black workers. white militants and revolutionaries should take hesitate to use it up the fight against racism inside the unions. This has to be done, not simply by passing general" anti-racist resolutions but by organis ing campaigns of support for strikes such as It is encouraging that the shop stewards at BLMC Langbridge hare banned a meeting called by the Enter Trade Union Alliunce, a trade union front outfit set up by the National Front. Union anti-racists should