Chrysler men ready for next round

YEATS 'WE ONLY won the first round, was the ONLY won the first round, was of scores of Chrysler strikers after the call off their month-old stoppage at in Coventry on Saturday.

A settlement with reached Friday night after two-and-a-half hours of triHAROLD WALKER, Opposillon front bench spokesman on employment, has demanded Investigation into the role of 'professional strike-busters' during the dispute.

He called for 'some kind of Inquest' into 'the appalling behaviour of those professional strike-busters who no doubt exacerbated the situaHe will raise the issue during today's debate in the Commons on the motor industry.

Sir Gerald Nabarro, the right-wing Tory MP for South Worcestershire, yesterday described the outcome of strike as 'calamitous'. It represented a capitulation to the forces of organized labour, he said.

He insisted that the government should 'stand firm' to fight and fight again ... no matter what threat from any source'. @TOMORROW — 'strike-busters'?

MEETING Motor Industry COVENTRY MONDAY JUNE 25 7.30 p.m.

Gosford Park Hotel

St. Georges Rd/ Northfield Rd Chrysler (Stoke) plant eaker: Alan Thornett deputy senior T&GWU steward at Morris Motors Cowley, Oxford a personal capacity)

MEETING Lessons of the Perkins Lock-out Peterborough NEDNESDAY JUNE 7.30 The Still Cumbergate eaker: Ken Tyrrell award Massey Ferg personal capacity verdict y agreed to ass meeting the American-owned company was partite talks at the City Council House.

The company's Linwood, Luton and Dunstable factories will remain open and Stoke and Ryton are expected to be back to normal working by tomorrow.

When Transport and General Workers' Union secretary Bill Lapworth announced the terms of the settlement, the packed Stoke Green meeting erupted into cheers.

'But,' said young T&GWU steward Mick Stapleton, 'there's not a man in the factory who thinks we have seen the end of this.' Convenor Roger Roberts has had grave doubts about the settlement:

'Nothing is settled, he said. It will all blow again before long'.

The deal involves a substantial climbdown from the tough line Chrysler has adopted during the past month. They have agreed to: • PAY all Ryton workers lay-oft pay for the week ending May 25 during which 650 men were taken off the clock for 90 minutes.

In effect this means company has agreed to pay all the men accused 'shoddy work'. • PAY holiday money to all those who have not yet received it. • SET UP a joint management-union committee within five working days to establish procedure for work disputes: *shoddy work' disputes. • PAY lay-off money for all those who • cannot be employed immediately because Ryton. won't get back to full production until tomorrow.

Mick Stapleton said: 'I think we won a victory, but Chrysler will try to come back on something else' Britain's car makers are in the opening stages of an offensive to force up productivity by taking full advantage of the state pay We don't want secret ballot-Perkins' convenor SIR HARMAR NICHOLLS, Peterborough's Tory MP, has stepped into the Perkins Diesels dispute with a promise to organize a secret ballot.

Speaking at a Tory fête to raise money for his party, Nicholls said that many of the 5,700 lockedout workers were 'hazy, if not completely in the dark, as regards the real merit, either of their own case or that of the Nicholls is talking rubbish. On the picket lines at the weekend Perkins workers knew exactly why they were in dispute: they want progress towards parity with Equity president Ernest Clark giving his address. laws and pressing for universal introduction Measured-Day Work.

Many Ryton men feel that the company is trying to use any reluctance for a second strike to drive a hard bargain in the pay negotiations on the plant agreement which expires later this "They will be counting on us not striking again on wages,' said track worker Alan Chisholm.

'We had them over a barrel and we should have held out for everything while we had the chance' As the weakest and most vulnerable of the American car giants, Chrysler has attempted to spearhead this summer's campaign to force up productivity by attacking basic trade union rights.

British - Leyland, Birmingham, has announced that Measured-Day Work will be tied to their next round of pay talks in September.

And Massey Ferguson, Coventry, which withdrew Measured-Day Work- proposals this year has warned it will raise it again next.

Meanwhile the Canadian combine has adopted an uncompromising stand at its subsidiary, Perkins Diesel, Peterborough, where 5,700 men are locked out.

Massey Ferguson workers

Coventry.

And in the absence of any commitment from management, they seem utterly determined to continue their fight.

As to a ballot, Jefi Cain, the deputy convenor said: "The men have made their feelings known and they have not indicated that they want a secret ballot.' Nicholls also said that Peterborough may become known as 'a rogue city' and industry might move away.

He did not tell his audience about his former close association with 'a rogue' company, Investors Overseas Services. He was a UK The eyes of Britain's car makers have been riveted on Chrysler and it is no accident that executive Gilbert Hunt has been elected president of the Motor Manufacturers and Traders for a second term.

Since 1967, when Chrysler first introduced Measured-Day Work at Coventry, the world currency crisis, coupled to trade war conditions in the car industry, has driven the company to desperation over the way the trade unions have blocked its unfettered operation.

Ryton worker Norman Roberts claimed the deal was a sell-out.

There were no guarantees the company would not put other men off the clock in the future and union officials had not pressed for compensation for the £150 most men had lost in earne ings over the past month.

Strike leader Joe Molloy told Workers Press:

I don't agree with those who want compensation. If you strike for a principle, you don't expect to be paid for it.' The Chrysler men believe they have won a victory, but despite the optimism of trade union officials about a new. era of harmonious industrial relations, workers will be watching the company like hawks for signs of the next attack.

in director and knew the IOS founder, Bernard Cornfeld, as 'Bernie'.

Cornfeld is now in a Swiss jail on fraud charges and the new head of IOS, Robert Vesco, is hiding out in Costa Rica wanted by the Swiss and US police.

Meanwhile townspeople in Peterborough are rallying behind the work force.

Mr George Earl of Pell's Stores has dropped the price of his goods by 6 per cent to men carrying Perkins union cards and a hairdresser, Pizzo Franks, says he will cut the hair of the lockedout men for 14 per cent less than normal prices. ACTORS' union delegates yesterday instructed Equity leaders to open immediate talks with the entertainment unions aimed at producing a single A motion, which was carried yesterday afternoon by a majority of about two to one, demanded the calling of a conference in December this year to report back on the merger negotiations.

The success of the motion was a rebuff for the Equity leadership. General Secretary Gerald _Croasdell had urged delegates to vote against.

It was also a defeat for the Communist Party delegates, who had sought to amend the motion to call simply for a 'campaign of support amongst Equity members' TOT the general proposition of amalgamation.

Moving the motion, Michael Cronin said that basic democratic rights were under attack right across the entertainments industry, and that the amalgamation proposal had to be viewed in the context of The Equity conference carried a resolution urging the establishment of a special office within the union to deal with the plight of unemployed members.

The office, suggested mover lan Milton, should publish a special casting directory and regular news sheets for unemployed members. It should also provide them with advice on supplementary benefits.

A motion calling for the election of deputies to represent unemployed members was defeated by 180 votes to 130.

In his presidential suggested that joint employed actors should and the union.

He attempted to shift the conference's attention away from the Industrial Relations Act. This had 'forcibly diverted' the union for too long, he said. It was now time to get on with the major problems of unemployment and of 'the restructuring of the union into a more decentralized and representative form'. - - . Unemployment had provided union for the entire industry. international economic crisis.

address, Ernest Clark responsibility for unbe shown by employers the basis for demands that the union should struggle to achieve revolutionary change, he said. But he went on:

'Our members in general will support revolutionary changes that we ask to make within our profession but, quite rightly, they will not support revolutionary attempts to change society itself.

Introducing the Equity's council's report to conference, union secretary Gerald Croasdell said that any attempt to turn Equity into a political direction had been shown to be out of line with the feelings of the majority of members.

The council would disregard irrelevant party political pressures'.

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