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Unions take u anti-fascist fight

Red Weekly No. 72, 17 October 1974 · p. 2 of the scan · 402 words

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agreed to pay the next two threshold RETURN The stewards accepted that these concessiuns could provide a basis for a return to wark so negotiations on the full claim could carry on. The management accepted these terns and also agreed that there would be per cent is a pathetic demand in the face of rampant inflation As one of the unofficial strikers, George Kerevan, told Red Weekir •We need the full L15 now The claim for 10 per cent in no way provides a unifying demand to meet the needs of Scottish teachers. The struele launched by the Action Committees do, and the committees involve unionised and non-unionised teachers alike. We must now work towards linking the two Committees (Glasgow & Edinburghl, fight for the union to Clearly this is not just a Scottish problem. Teachers in the rest of Britain face many similar probiems. Now they must take up solidarity with their Scottish brothers and sisters? Warwick University Student Union on 2 who ate suowing the way. This would be an excellent first step towards united action throughout the The anti-fascist movement got a big boo last week. Britain's largest union, the Tr sport and General, has distributed ton th sand copies of a pamphlet- Racialam, / cism and the Trade Unioris-written by Brian Nicholson of the Executive Com tee, and published by the Union's docks group Other unions have taken up the que tion ae well. At their last conferences, t rariwaymen's union, the NUR, and Clim Jenkins's ASTMS both voted to support and promote local anti-fascist committe And during the election the NUR's Nor London district council produced a leaf let for distribution throughout London' railway workshops, exposing the Natio Front as "doing exactly the same thing * Moslay's British Union of Fascists o in the "30s.

Brian Nicholson's pamphlet, with a foreward by General Secretary Jack Jo & a big step forward for this developin movement. Anti-fascist militants will find the excellent analysis and back-up material about racism and fascism and the light against it very useful for push ing these issues into the heart of the trade union movement.

Brian Nicholson will be one of the s ers at the anti-fascin conference called? Norember. Copier of hit penpflet are allable fom GW Region 1, Green, Lanes, London N4.

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take up our claim and move toward a strategy which takes up the whole

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