Glassworkers' leaders speak sackings

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Men like John Potter, Gerry Caughey, Brian Woodward and Derek Greenough - all committee members of the Glass ow fighting a desperate batt against sackings by the Pi the won'S rs night to withdraw their labour.

There may be disagreement right to strike must and has drawn a great response from workers all over the country.

Encouraged

What great encouragement it would give to the Tories and other employers if Lord Pil kington, with G&MWU back. ing, vendetta against his company's militants through to a successful conclusion.

Liverpool dockers and Midlands carworkers have already seen the momentous implications behind the St Helens witch-hunt and are blacking glass from the town's plants; now Steers will tolow hel other workers wil example.

This what told Tossure or the breakiy Said said Tine 'when had a must fill glass factories.

'He took this to the management and they said they Were not with and would have to get a representative of the G&MWU. He said he didn't want this and thes promptly sent him out of the 'After many unsuccessful approaches to the management to ciscuss me mater we were forced to hold a mass meeting from the cowley thel works.

'Here it was unanimously decided to hold al token strike against the management's dictatorial attitude.

"The men came out and the management sent a letter to could be sayed it they ded each that not return to work. der this men under but vet 60° stayed out the of fear and went back, third day of the strike. They them that they had been cked and to collect the oney and carc "The whole thing was summed up by what one of the workers told a picket the other day.

'He came out of the factory and said to him: "We're in prison in there while you are free outside."

"The management are really getting back at the men now they have the chance; they're walking around in there like little dictators.

'The management, the G&MWU and Victor Feather have been completely false.

'I went down to London, met Feather and the Municipal's Lord Cooper and signed an agreement that there would be no victimization and that the 27 men at the Pontypool factory still out on strike would be reinstated with no vicitimization. This agreement was broken. Every man was victimized the day ne got matıcally deduct the 2s 6d back, and we see what has union dues from our wagehappened now: the men at packets and operate a closed Pontypool are still locked out, shop while, in return, the and they are in the G&MWU 1 union opposes every strike"They have stated in the that's about the sum of it.

papers that on no account will "The way to defeat this be taken back into the union is solidarity.

Entrance to the key float-glass plant from which Nasser deports Arab guerrillas-Iraqis report LARGE-SCALE arrests of those opposed to Nasser's acceptance of the US 'peace plan' appear to have been launched in Egypt.

A radio broadcast from Iraq claims that 'arrivals in Beirut from Cairo say the Egyptian authorities arrested three Egyptians on charges of slandering the government's defeatist attitudes.

"The arrivals say that Cairo cafes and public places have witnessed in the past few days heated discussions condemning surrender solutions and the liquidation, Of the Palestine ques'FATE UNKNOWN' The report names an Iraqi student—Salah Shabib —as one of those arrested:

'Intelligence and Criminal Investigation Service men raided his house and G&MWU. After this experience I treat this as an honour; I feel as though I have been awarded a knighthood.' Hopes I know a lot of people are hoping we will win this dispute, said G&GWU committee member BRIAN WOODWARD.

'If we can do this, then we can get back into the factory and get off the ground again.

'We must stop this management. Pilkington's are out to crush all militancy in the factory and so are the G&MWU, or why would they state that all applications to join or rejoin will be vetted ?

"The management and this union have had a very happy agreement in the past: management has agreed to _autosearched it carefully.

"They then led Shabib to an unknown place. His fate is not known ..?

'REFUSED ENTRY' The Iraqi news agency also reports similar repres sions in Jordan:

"The Jordanian authoritities have refused entry to six members of the Democratic Popular Front and returned them to Cairo on the same plane. The six arrived at Amman airport yesterday still wearing their pyjamas after the Cairo authorities had taken them trom their beds straight to the aircraft for deportation to Amman..?

Action i against the various guerrilla groups rejecting the cease-fire will undoubtedly be one of the subjects for discussion when King Hussein of Jordan Brian Woodward.

'We have talked of taking it over from within and we have been into the rule-book, Support 'Then the support we have all would be freed. had from other workers has been a great boost to our Friday, and the rest are exmorale.

ected to arrive in Athens in I'll give you an example.

the next few days.

We went along to the transport section of the T&GWU in St Helens, they said they were sorry but could not help us by blacking the glass. Our lads were waiting at another Figure is much higher meeting and their hearts sunk to their boots when they heard the news.

'But we were able to pick them back off the floor with the news that the dockers were fighting behind us and had put the black on Pilking- Socialist ton's goods; this was great.

'I used to be on the staff at Pilkington's, then I came back to the firm and worked on the shop floor. I wasn't even a trade unionist and I looked after myself: this was my flies to Cairo on Thursday for talks with President Nasser.

Israeli objections that the Egyptians have broken the cease-fire agreement have been brushed aside by US Defence Secretary Melvin Laird.

industries is needed now.

PROTESTS GROW With talks already under way between Middle East 'peace envoy' Gunnar Jarring and Egyptian officials at the United Nations in New York, the Zionists are expected to come into line soon and agree on a time or power and place loI three-way negotiations with Jordan and Egypt over the future of the Middle East.

The preservation • of a Zionist Israeli state implicit in the terms of the agreement is now openly accepted by Nasser, and it is against this betrayal of the Palestinians that thousands of Egyptians are now protesting. 1938)

reject wage offer TRADE UNION leaders in Argentina have rejected 7-per-cent wage increase for all workers in private industry, it was reported from Buenos Aires yesterday.

The secretary-general of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) commented: Regrettably, once again, the working class's demands have been rejected.' Trade union leaders insist that recent cost-of-living increases have already eaten up the 7 per cent offered.

Big setback

The rejected offer was intended to cover the period from September 1 to next January.

Its rejection union leaders is a big setback for the government of President Roberto Levingston, which ousted the bitterly dictatorship CIA 'plants' in Athens