Merseyside Dockers Stand Firm

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from Pat Brain The strike of the Liverpool dockers now entering its third week has surprised the Labour Government end the port employers by its degree of solidarity. The result has been the extension of the strike to the London docks once again, There are now 18,000 Dockers on strike. The London dockers after working under the new decasualisation system for a few days and having the experience of the increased powers of the port employers over their jobs and in many cases receiving a cut in pay, have now joined the Merseyside strikers in their determinative struggle against the combined Government and employers offensive, aimed at reducing their standard and union rights, The trade union movement as a whole must back the dockers in this fight and the attempt of the bosses to use the Government in any open intervention to smash the strike must be resisted vigorously. The question that screams out for an answer is why tke hell is the Government utilizing their position to introduce a system of rationalisation which strengthers the private ownership of the ports, The demand that must be raised by the men,if it is to gain in this conflict,is nationalisation of the docks and following logically from this:workers' control, Under workers' control the problem of redundency caused by increased mechanisation can be met by reducing the hours of the working week at the same take home pay,