The following report is based upon a confidential report made by a bourgeois social organisations: The Avonmouth dispute
Thirty to fourty coloured people were on shore about 9.00 a.m. receiving goods ex §.S5. Telapi on July 9th. The white foreman in charge on the shore reprimanded a coloured man for throwing bananas into the railway van. The foreman said that if the particular gang concerned (about five in number) would not do as they were told they would get their cards. The foreman turned to walk away and received a blow on the back of the head at the left side and another to the chin. He then turned round and hit a young coloured man of 18 years. The foreman then went down on the floor hit by men unknown, in the left ribs. ‘hits men pulled him out.
Thirty white registered dock labourers came to see the T.G.17.U. officer at about 9.40 aem. A supervisor said that he would get the trouble makers removed and they must return to work. The 'trouble makers' turned out to be one (aged 18). When the registered dock labourers got on the berth, however, the supervisor's staff of the Stevedore's firm refused to work with the coloured workers, The super— visor's staff never returned to the T.G.1/.U. office.
The Stevedore's firm seeing the attitude of the Supervisor's staff (which appears tc have been somewhat enotional) returned coloured people to the labour office at approximately 11.50 a.m. where they received the National Timeworth minimum for four hours work. The T.G.W.U. advised against returning the men on grounds that colour discrimination was undesirable. The Stevedore firn returned all coloured workers (between 80 and 100) to the Labour Exchange on the Grounds that the Supervisors wouldn't work with then, AFRO AU GRICANS DGMONSTRATS IN THs Dutp SOUTH — OVR 100 ARRUSTED
On July 22nd, Police in Albany, Georgia, broke up a demonstration by several hundred Afro Americans who defied a Federal Court injunction and marched on the cityhall for a prayer meeting against racial discrimination, About 100 denonstrators were arrested and gaoled. TH UNHOLY ALLIANCE RECBIViD: This pamhlet produced by the M.C.F., the Anti- Apartheid Iiovement and tue Council for Freedom in Portugal and the colonies deals with the alliance between such types as Salazar, Verwoerd and Welensky in their attempt to maintain white supremacy in its crudest form. Well-documented and goinr into matters in considerable detail, the pamphlet is a valuable propaganda weapon ond we should push it. It doesn't give a revolutionary answer to the problems but it can do a valuable job in educating Labour Party members and trade unionists.