Picketers held
NZPA-AP London An estimated 3000 striking newspaper workers and sympathisers demonstrated yesterday at the new high-technology plant where copies of Rupert Murdoch’s two weeklies were printed and trucked out for distribution. Twenty-three people were arrested during scuffles with police. About 2000 production workers were protesting against the dismissal of 5000 colleagues by Mr Murdoch’s company, News International. The dismissed workers
struck on January 24, refusing to go along with Mr Murdoch’s moving two dailies and two weeklies from Fleet Street to the new plant or to accept a cut In staff and a no-strike commitment The demonstrators were joined by about 1000 banner-waving women led by Brenda Dean, general secretary of the striking union, the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, and by Ann Scargill and Betty Heathfield, wives of the miners’ union leaders Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield.
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Press, 10 February 1986, Page 6
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141Picketers held Press, 10 February 1986, Page 6
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