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LEADING Communist seafarer Gordon Norris, who played a key role in the 1966 National Union of Seamen (NUS) pay-and-hours strike, died aged 87 in south London this week.
He was one of the NUS rank-and-file leaders slandered by Labour prime minister Harold Wilson at the time as a “tightly knit group of politically motivated men” seeking to harm the interests of the country because they fought to reduce seafarers’ working week from 56 hours to 40. Mr Norris’s death in Tooting Hospital on Wednesday was announced by his close comrade Phil Ballard who will make funeral details known in due course.
