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Workers Press no. 1001, 19 February 1973 · scan pages 2, 3, 13

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LEADERS of 50,000 Ford workers threw down the gauntlet yesterday to the state pay laws of the Tory government. Shop stewards from every Ford factory in the country voted almost unanimously for all-out strike action from March 1.

And they demanded that the union leaders give immediate official backing to their action.

At a 500-strong meeting in Coventry, the Ford stewards came together with shop-floor leaders of other sections of workers hit by the pay laws and the policy of the Tories.

Those attending included British-Leyland, Vauxhall and Chrysler car workers; teachers; hospital workers; engineering workers from Rolls-Royce: and a delegation from Bryant Colour Printing work-in in London.

The meeting demanded that the union leaders participated in no deals with the Tory government over its state pay laws.

A resolution pledged its full support to a call that the TUC organize a national day of action against the Tories' attack on free collective bargaining from its March 5 recall conference.

Chairman Bernard Passingham refused to accept an amendment calling for a General Strike to remove the Tories from office.

Nevertheless the fight to remove the Tories and the question of what kind of Labour government should replace them, PRICES STARTING TODAY CENTRE PAGES Stephen Johris three-part investigation into the producers, their profits and why prices are rising so rapidly.

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formed the centre hour discussion.

There was obvious general agreement when Jock Gibson, Chrysler UK convenor from Coventry, warned that if the Tory government succeeded its present plans to destroy the trade union movement in Britain the outcome would be a dictatorship worse than that of Adolf Hitler.

Alan Thornett, Iransport ano General Workers' deputy senior steward from Morris Motors, Cowley, Oxford, reported that a point of confrontation was close in his factory as well as in SKIL