THs COMMITTEE FOR SOLIDARITY WITH VICTIMS OF PERUVIAN REPRESSION INVITE YOU TO As:
Free Hugo Blanco Meeting.
Protest at Peruvian Repression,
Friday 26th. Caxton Hall 8 p.m, (St. James Park Tube).
Speakers: Bill Molloy, M.P. Robin Blackburn, Faris Glubb.
Chairman: Roger Protz,
N.A.L.S.0. SUPPORTS D.A.T.A. from a special correspondent The following letter has been issued by N.A.L.S.0.
The lock-out of members of the Draughtsmen's and Allied Technicians Association by the shipbuilding employers is now in its ninth week. The employers are trying to force DATA into submission. They are using their power against members of DATA in the shipbuilding industry as a means of compelling DATA to call off the Swan Hunter's shipyard strike. The central fact about this strike is that wages are too low. DATA men at Swan Hunter's were being paid substantially less than draughtsmen on similar work in a number of British shipyards, and about 30/- a week less than the average basic pay for draughtsmen, aged thirty years and over, excluding the London area, at the end of 1966. The offer made by the employers would still have left DATA members at Swan Hunter's well behind the average pay for provincial draughtsmen. The employers have not been prepared to reach a satisfactory settlement to meet the grievances of the draughtsmen, and have resorted, through the shipbuilding employers' federation to a national lock-out of DATA members, The response of DATA members in defence of their brothers at Swan Hunter has been a fine display of solidarity - not one defection has been reported in the entire industry, At the NALSO conference in Manchester, delegates collected £10 towards the lock-out fund, and this has been sent to DATA by the executive expressing our support for DATA's fight, and for a great victory, It is vital that every section of the Labour Movement is mobilised in support of the draughtsmen - for it is clear that the employers are out to smash the power of DATA in the shipbuilding industry. NALSO calls on all students and socialist societies and labour clubs to play their part in raising support for DATA, Firstly, by sending resolutions of support to DATA, and secondly by carrying out, at maximum speed, collections among students, throughout colleges and universities. We ask that students make a contribution to the lock-out fund, of at least 1/- each. Donation forms are enclosed.