Bristol Liaison Committee Mass Meeting

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Over 500 Bristol dockers packed into Fairfax Hall on Saturday morning, November 6th, to hear members of the London Portworkers Liaison Committee, Mr Jack Dash who was to have spoken unfortunately went down with the flu, and was unable to attend, but 6 other members of the committee were present. The purpose of the meeting was to present and explain the ll-point charter, which the Bristol dockers have now adopted. Mr. Albert McGrath, secretary of the Bristol and Avonmouth Committee said that they now had well over 400 members and that bundles of applications were coming in every day. Speaker after speaker urgedthe men present to take the charter back to their union branches, to revitalise their section of the TGWU and make sure that the officials were serving the interests of the members, A number of speakers stressed the importance of nationalisation, They also made it clear why the National Dock Labour Board must retain control of lsahour. a noint 2lan hroucht ont in the Chartar.