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There has been a 12-month dispute since steel-fixers were sacked and 200 workers stopped work in their support, District secretaries of the bricklayers, woodworkers, plumbers, transport and constructional engineers! unions, and of the N.F.B.T.0. London Region, orginally supported us, A regional disputes commission held in February to determine the fate of the six stewards failed to agree. The subsequent National Disputes Comission's decision to start work without the steel-fixars and six stewards was rejected by all workers on the site, The Cameron Report, while criticising the employers, attacked only the shop stewards, agreed to their dismissal, and sought to introduce new methods of discipline and the appointment of stewards in place of traditional free election, It is not the strike committee but the N.F,B.TO. which is unrepresentative, as shown by the Hundreds of trade union branches which have backed financially and condemned both N,F.B.T.0, leaders and the Cameron Report. It is not the strike committee, but Myton's sackings and blacklisting which has prevented work on the site. In an industry where employers openly blacklist, victimise and transfer active trade unionists, where basic wages are less than £15 a week and where 11 workers are killed and 180 injured every two weeks, disputtes and struggles are unavoidable. Throughout the history of the trade union movement men have been hounded by employers, transported, imprisoned, slandered and deprived of the right to work, We have no wish to be martyrs, but the employers' aims remain the same - to have their own way - to continue to exploit and profit from the labour of ordinary people. This is the issue that faces every working man, It is this threat that we have attempted to meet in a manner no different from that used by generations of trade unionists in our country,