Vote Greg Duff

Estate offered much higher wages. Up till then, Limerick was little more than a large market town with a big service industry which had built itself by paying pathetically low wages to its workers.

The sixties was a period of economic boom. Emerging from high unemployment and widescale emigration of the fifties, the Irish economy began to expand. It appeared that the new industrialisation policy was a success. In this cofttext, Shannon represented every thing that was new in Irish society. Shannon PD’s candidate in the election will be Greg Duff, a well-known trade unionist in the town. Greg, who lives at 26 Gleann na Smol, is aged 33 and has lived in Shannon for the past 10 years. A former member of the Shannon Town Alliance, he works for a a printing firm on the Industrial Estate.

Greg was active in the Dublin Housing Action Committee in the late sixties and since then has built up a reputation as an active trade unionist. He is Clare Branch Secretary of the Irish and serves as a member of the has a long record of support for workers’ struggles in the, area and the Chile Solidarity Committee and the H Block/Armagh movement. Bookbinders and Allied Trades Union national executive of that union. Greg policy.

among his other involvements has been FOR ELECTION This election is important in that it will be the first electoral opportunity open to workers since the general election to react to government The election campaign to elect Greg Duff to Shannon Town Commissioners will require campaign workers and finance. We take this opportunity to invite you to support our campaign. i If you are available, especially at weekends, and more especially coming