The Bristol and Avonmouth Docks Liaison Committee Charter

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This committee is recruiting hundreds of dockers on the basis of support for ll-point charter, which reads: 1. The National Dock Labour Board to maintain full control, 1eee,

contractors of labour - discipline and social welfare - present strength

of the register to remain - no cutting in the manning scales, Weekly

worker register to be frozen, No make-up of wastage. 2. All unregistered ports to be governed by the scheme. 3e £18.10s Od fall-back guarantee. Each day to remain on its own = no

devaluation = no disentitlement on failure to prove. 4. A 40-hour week, five-day week to remain. One call each day, 5« Overtime payment to be excluded from fall-back cuarantee,. 6. Upward revision of all piecework rates, 7e« Sickness and accident pay to be 50% of basic pay (£18.10s) exclusive

of state insurance, 8, Retiring pension to also be 50% of basic pay - also exlcusive of state

pension. 9. Three weeks holiday. Reduced or free transport fares - especially on

all shipping, and payment of travelling expenses to and from work, 10. The trade unions to rigidly enforce a "no solidting for work" rule. 11. Complete and effective nationalisation of the industry.