Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 11:13:40 -0500 (CDT) From: "Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave-AT-mundo.eco.utexas.edu> Subject: AUT: Concerning LabourNet Open Letter (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 16:52:06 -0400 From: LabourNet <chrisbailey-AT-GN.APC.ORG> Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <LABOR-L-AT-YORKU.CA> To: LABOR-L-AT-YORKU.CA Subject: Concerning LabourNet Open Letter The Mersey Port Stewards have asked LabourNet to circulate the following letter concerning the reference to building an "international organisation of portworkers" in the Open Letter I wrote recently on behalf of LabourNet to Labourtel '97. I was really only alluding to the international organising that took place around the day of action etc., but I accept that the wording was open to misinterpretation. Chris Bailey LabourNet 18 July Dear comrades, We welcome the debate which has opened up on the uses of the internet to develop workers solidarity. Since our dismissal in September 1995 for refusing to cross a picket line, we have suffered from long periods of media silence on the key industrial developments in our dispute. Even the unprecedented international action in January this year was effectively buried by the British press and TV. LabourNet has given us a way to report our story, and we would particularly like to thank Chris Bailey and Greg Dropkin for their efforts in this regard. It is only now that we have a computer in our office that we can begin to see the full scope for workers in struggle to make use of this fantastic tool. This internet work has aimed to develop the international solidarity of portworkers and their organisations. The reference in LabourNet's open letter to "the work to help build an international organisation of portworkers" is unfortunately open to misinterpretation, but we hope that all concerned will accept that Liverpool dockers simply seek the widest possible international coordination and solidarity in our fight for reinstatement. Indeed, when we achieve our goal, we will be able to help defend the interests of dockworkers throughout the world. This is our agenda, and we know that LabourNet accepts and agrees with this. VICTORY TO THE LIVERPOOL DOCKWORKERS Yours in Solidarity, Jim Davies Sec./Treasurer Merseyside Port Shop Stewards --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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