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from a Hull reader Coincidins with the by-election here, a rapil ‘escalation' of activity in the fishing industry is occurring which could have important consequences for fishermen and the labour movement in the town. An unofficial strike committee, which aims to fight in militant fashion for 100% unionism on trawlers, was set up last week. The committee is also interested in a campaign for the nationalisation of the industry. The threatened merger of Ross Group and Associated Fisheries faces the fishermen with a monopoly power, which whilst receiving absurd subsidies from the State, remains outside public or workers! control. Jeremy Tunstall's letter in the Guardian last week, drawing attention to fishermen's primitive working conditions and the monopoly situation, and decrying the absence of attention to the industry during the election campaign, has had a big impact locally. He is the author of an important book on the conditions of work of Hull fishermen. Hull fish bobbers(the dockers attached to the industry) have passed a resolution this week calling for the nationalisation of the industry with workers' control. They are threatened with extensive redundancy and an undermining of their controls over the job, by the owners! plans for "rationalisation". West Hull Labour Party passed a resolution calling for nationalisation and workers! control of the industry last year. Humberside Voice has run a whole series of articles highlighting primitive working conditions, and calling for support of the West Hull resolution, over the past eight monthse C.S.E. in Hull hopes to draw these forces together, (with important assistance from mature university students in the background research which is needed)to run public meetings on the industry,(we hope to invite Jereny Tunstall to speak here)and to prepare a socialist plan.which will be published as a pamphlete Meanwhile, Voige will support the immedjate struggles of fishermen and bobbers for improvements in their atrocious working conditions, and for powerful trade unionisme