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J Dockers v warehousemen in
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East London dispute
DISSATISFACTION with the progress of the Aidington/Jones recommendations for docks work reorganization has prompted an unofficial attempt by Royal Group dockers to compel East London warehousing employers to provide more jobs for dockers.
The leaders of the unofficial dockers' campaign include Mr Vic Turner, one of the "Pentonville Five" docks leaders jailed by the National Industrial Relations Court during the 1972 campaign.
Mr A. D. Williams, manager of Dagenham Storage Company Ltd, Pooles Lane, Dagenham, told CM on Monday that a group of dockers was outside his firm's premises trying to persuade visiting lorry drivers not to enter the depot. But, nearby, there was a counterpicket of TGWU employees at the depot who were successful in persuading all but a small minority of drivers that the dockers' picket was wholly unofficial.
His counter-picketing workers had an official letter from union hq deploring the unofficial action by dissident dockers.
Mr Williams said that in the normal course about 100 vehicles a day visited Dagenham Storage. The picketing by dockers was not seriously affecting business but there was a tendency for customers to "hold off' while the dispute continued.
Another firm threatened by the docker's unofficial action is F. J. Robertson Ltd, 192 West Ferry Road, Millwall. Transport manager, Mr J. Blake, said that Robertson and Dagenham Storage were the two firms picked by a recent meeting of militant dockers as initial targets in a "more jobs for dockers" campaign. He understood that the "black list" of East London warehousing and container handling firms consisted of about 100 names and employers in the area were concerned lest the dispute assumed the importance of the 1972 dispute.
"There are 10 warehousemen employed at Robertson's," said Mr Blake, "but no vacancies. Our men hal five or six years' service an it is simply 'not on' I contemplate replacing thei with dockers. To do s would be suicidal; we'd broke in 12 months."