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We ask all British workers and their leaders in the TUC to answer our appeal', he declared.
‘Blockade Pakistan. Do not load anything for Yahya Khan. If British workers give to lead, and especially their leaders, then workers all over the world will follow.’
Both Jahan and Mannan were in Bangladesh when the Pakistan army unleashed its massacres on March 25. Trade unionists bore the brunt of the attack,’ said Shah Jahan.
Militants were hunted down in Dacca, Chittagong and other towns and shot on the spot.
Even workers answering calls to collect their back pay have been machine gunned down, hundreds at a time.
‘But their spirit is unbroken,’ Shah Jahan assured Workers Press.
He explained that 30 per cent of E. Bengal workers had received military training under the Yahya regime.
Many of these workers were now leading the Liberation Army and helping to train recruits in the camps.
Both leaders thanked Workers Press for the campaign it was organizing in the British trade unions for concrete solidarity action with the workers and peasants of Bangladesh.
Their impassioned appeal for an official trade union embargo on all goods and arms to Pakistan places the ball firmly in the court of Jack Jones, Hugh Scanlon and TUC general secretary Victor Feather.
Workers in all unions must demand that they act-and now.
