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Workers Press no. 17, 21 October 1969 · scan page 2

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 17 • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1969 JAN 3 1 1370 PRICE 6d. meetings Porthcawl. liners travel into uade pitworkers strike, delegates miners meet in The Welsh workers will it aren't £10 or we Ford men FORD WORKERS have made a determined start to bring their wages into line with those in the better-paid car factories. They have pledged to achieve a £10 all-round increase in pay or The possibility of an international Ford rank-and-file conference towards the end of this year was also discussed.

Foundry workers at Ford's Dagenham 'square mile' have already decided to take strike action from January 18 next year in support of the parity claim.

Criticisms were made by several workers during the well-attended meeting of the way union leaders had conducted themselves during the strike earlier this year.

A penalty clause agreement had been signed over the membership's head, pointed out one Halewood steward.

A Dagenham worker warned that Ford's would rely heavily on the Trades Union Congress's agreement with the government during a parity fight.

Differences

Questioned as to exactly when the negotiating committee would act, Transport and General Workers' Union engineering secretary Moss Evans said there were differences on this between the various unions involved.

But he pledged that any new agreement with Ford's would abolish penal clauses completely.

A number of speakers discussed another of the men's aims - equal pay for women. Like the all-round claim, it was stressed, this had to be achieved without 'strings'.

Officials were meeting the company on this early in November, reported Moss Evans, and his union would officially back action against any attempt to lift restrictions on