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80 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড পাকিস্তানকে সাহায্য প্রদান বন্ধের জন্য | ওয়ার্কাস প্রেস’ লন্ডন ৯ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ বাঙ্গালী শ্রমিক নেতাদের আহবান Friday July 9, 1971 WORKERS PRESS Bangladesh Exclusive STOP PAKISTAN SUPPLIES: PLEA TO UNIONISTS BY Robert Black BRITISH LABOUR must block all aid to Pakistan, leaders of the four million- strong Bangladesh National Workers' League told Workers Press yesterday. League President Shah Jahan and General Secretary Abdul Mannan are in Britain from Bangladesh to secure definite pledges of solidarity action from the major trade unions, especially those covering dockers and other transport workers. Stressing the unity of interest between British and Bengali workers in their common struggle for basic rights, Shah Jahan said the National Workers' League had already requested that British dockers and seamen 'refrain from working on Pakistan ships or any other vessels carrying goods and arms to Pakistan”. He intends to discuss this proposal with Jack Jones, whose Transport and General Workers' Union organizes the majority of Britain's port-workers. (The T & GWU conference opens in Scarborough next Monday.) Shah Jahan said that after meeting trade union leaders from all over the world, he was convinced that if the British workers gave a lead in supporting Bangladesh, others would soon follow. INFLUENCE 'It would greatly influence the workers of Europe, America and Canada', he stated. He emphasized that workers and their leaders should not be diverted from supporting Bangladesh by the 'power considerations' of the world governments. Their only consideration should be the cause for which workers throughout the world are fighting-political and economic emancipation.' These points were endorsed by former jute mill worker Abdul Mannan. He spent seven years in Pakistani jails for organizing the first mass strikes against the military regime of Ayub Khan. Seven of his family, including his mother, have been killed by the Pakistan army since March 25.