Hi-jacker: Parents are 'not ashamed'

London closure CAN Onto met yesterday in sitter of neit Morris men must keep piecework LOCAL OFFICIALS of the Transport and General Workers' Union and the AEF travelled all night from York to a mass meeting of assembly workers from the Oxford Austin-Morris plant yesterday with a document hammered out during eight hours' negotiations.

It had been drawn up by Moss Evans, T&GWU national engineering officer, Reg Birch, AEF executive member and a British-Leyland team headed by director of industrial relations Pat Lowry.

The Oxford strike has lasted for nearly six weeks, and has been made official by the AEF and the T&GWU.

The local officers had instructions to put the York deal to the mass meeting as a basis for a return to work.

Bulldoze

Senior shop stewards from the Cowley plant, who had not been involved in these negotiations, would not agree to this obvious attempt to bulldoze the meeting into acceptance without adequate time to discuss and, consider the complicated proposals.

The meeting unanimously accepted a resolution put by T&GWU senior shop steward Bob Fryer to stay out and meet again on Monday.

The proposals, while going some way towards settlement of the original issues of the dispute-movement of labour and interim payment-leave the central issue of MeasuredDay Work unresolved.

During the York meeting Pat Lowry told the national VERDICT of lawful homicide was returned at the inquest of Patrick Arguello, the American who died of gunshot wounds when trying to hi-jack an El Al airplane over the North Sea with Leila Khaled.

le seven-man jury sitting in Middlesex yesterday heard a statement said to have been may after the attempted hi Leila Khaled the jack believe this action [the hijack] was legal because I was one of the people driven out of their homeland and this target is military one.' but in nis summing up Coroner Dr John Burton dict of an act ot war as a flight of the imagination—a complete fantasy.

After the jury returned their verdict Patrick Arguello's mother issued a statement. 'My husband and I deny that we are ashamed of Pat,' it said. 'We are proud that he felt so deeply about the injustice done to the Palestinians that he . was prepared to die for them.' officers quite clearly that the company does not intend to put traditional piecework into the new OT block development and tabled a complete Measured-Day Work plan as the alternative.

This was rejected by the unions, but it was made clear that Leyland would now take this through the procedure machinery to York as an employers' reference.

At their meeting the shop stewards passed a resolution that the strike should continue and that the proposals do not form the basis for a return to work.

that the local stood, may cali for a return to work on Monday.

These workers should stand firm against this deal and demand a guarantee that piecework should operate before a return to work.

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