Bristol stoppage
By David Maude
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Workers' Press correspondent FIVE E. S. and A. Robinson paper factories in the Bristol area will be hit today by a 24-hour strike.
The 3,000 members of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades employed at the factories decided on the strike at a mass meeting last Thursday.
Today's stoppage follows the fortnight-old strike by 200 workers at the company's Bedminster plant over a pay claim.
The Bedminster men hope their stoppage will be made official today.
L.T.B. maintena stay.out extend strike MAINTENANCE men at the London Transport Board's Acton railway workshops have voted to continue their strike into its seventh week.
At the moment, the strike is causing cancellation of about two dozen trains daily.
Some 20 lifts and escalators are also believed to be out ot order as a result of sympathy action by 100 other maintenance men.
Members of the Electrical Trades Union and the National Union of Vehicle Builders have declared all work normally done by the strikers 'black' But the board is still refusing to settle the men's grievance and there is increasing support for the view hat their union-the Ama amated Engineers and Four iryworkers-should bring ou all LTB maintenance men ir support.
A resolution to this effect was placed before the executive recently by the union's Wandsworth district committee.
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