from Dave Holt
A letter in the August issue of the TSSA Journal from C.H. Palmer of King's X, No. 2 branch) challenged the right of the Executive of his union to protest against the Rivonia sentences. He said that the union would be better concerning itself with its members' problems. An editorial replies in quite a decisive fashion, saying that the whole principle of trade unionism was tied up with the question seeking social justice for all. .ot merely those within its om ranks. It concludes: "By all we mean not just those people fortunate enough to live in Britain; and not just white people either. So if the bell tolls in South Africa or Spain, it tolls for us in Britain too,"