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involved a group of the workers and lawyers and the DIH. The
DIH said that this was not a matter that could be resolved just by
resorting to lawyers and it would be necessary to carry out actions
together. For workers to be able to get their rights it was necessary
to resort to legitimate struggle as well as by taking legal action, the
DIH said. Even before work had gone badly the bosses had coveted

what the workers earned. In general, they transferred their prop-
erty to others, saying “There is nothing left for you” and said they
were freed of their workers. And the stat’s labour courts pursue a
general policy of stretching out court proceedings so the bosses
can gain time and at the end of court proceedings the bosses’ prop-
erty is in the hands of bailiffs, and the workers are told, “You have
won, get the property from the bailiffs,” so they workers are dis-

tracted and the bosses are assisted, as they described. After these
speeches we decided to take action as the Kazova workers, and to-
gether with DIH we worked out an action plan. The Halkin
Hukuk Burosu (People’s Law Bureau) would start legal proceed-
ings and this was the task given to it. We would march to Taksim
with the DIH at the head and go to Galatasaray high school on
Saturday evenings,
and every Wednes-
day afternoon we
would go from Sisli

Square to the fac-
tory in Bomonti
and read out a press
statement, while on
weekends we would
protest in front of

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