PAGE 1 EDITORIAL NOTES, " 2 Docks situation, _ The Anti-Devlin Report is now . 3 The Pay-réll tax. ready. This is an invaluable " 4 Labour and the Co-ops, document on the situation on the " 6 An analysis of Nasserism. docks coming at a most apposite " 7 Labour men block African momente Not only will it be a
speakers, blue=print for the type of demands " 8 C.IeA. exposed, that dockers should raise in face = =10 Labour businessmen to of Devlin and the Government's
form group? attack on them, it will also be eo 35 Workers. Controle a guide for action in ell industries * 12 Vietnam campaign, faced with similar problems, All . The Seamen!s case, readers of The Week should buy a May Day in Hull, this report and sell it. They should
do everything they can to get it to
dockers, 2/6d from 1, Plantation Dr.
Anlaby Park, Hull, It is certain that the Government will make every effort to avert the Sean: strike. They will attempt to do a repeat performance of the way Mr. Wilson persuaded the N.U.R. to call off:.its strike at the llth hour. Just as certain is that if the strike takes place the whole apparatus of the press and the mass media will be brought into action to discredit and vilify . ithe strikers, We will hear much of "extreme left-wing elements", "holding the country to ransom", "communist influences", etc., but scarcely nothing about the intransigence of the employers. The left must counter this. We must regard ourselves as the allies and spokesmen of the seamen. In every locality, 1... branches, Labour Parties, C.S.E, branches, etc., must organise meetings for members of seamen's strike committees can come along and explain their case. If the strike is prolonged by the employers putting their profits before the interests of the country (as if they ever do anything else) a great solidarity fund must be set up. The seamen are going into action not only against backward and stubborn employers but indirectly against a Labour Government which? Spplying Tery measures on the industrial front (as everywhere else), As such the Seamen are the first in battle and desrve all our support. If the strike is called off we must also support the seamen in any efforts necessary to make sure their demands are not lost by lack of militant leadership. This will particularly apply if sections are goaded into taking "unofficial action."