Labour’s No To Mersey Strike & Statement By Arthur Deakin (1951)

Liverpool, Merseyside and London. GV. Pan up, strikers marching through streets on way to meeting. SV. Dockers marching past camera. One holding poster ’Deakin Sells Out we Walk Out’. Back view of strikers marching, pan to general view of strikers marching through streets. LV. Police assembly outside dock gates. Angle shot, bow of ship, pan down to long shot of ships idle. LV. Ship at quayside. SV. Few dockers unloading cargo from ship. SV. Man at winch. SV. Cargo dropping down onto truck. SV. Cargo on truck driving away up quayside. SV. Arthur Deakin speaking. CU. Deakin speaking. SV. Deakin speaking. Several shots (some good C/U) of General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, Mr Arthur Deakin speaking in Transport House, London (natural sound): ’The unofficial dockers strike is due to the reckless agitation of a group of saboteurs calling themselves the National Port Workers Committee.’ CU. ’The ten people causing the stoppage have no sense of responsibility. They are just a bunch