TUC must glassmen

Workers Press no. 287, 28 October 1970 · scan page 2

Topics: Trade union leaders and the TUC, Engineering

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A DEMAND tbat the Trades Union Congress presses for the reinstatement of the sacked Pilkington glassworkers at St Helens and Pontypool has come from W London engineers.

Chiswick No. 5 Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers' branch has sent copies of the following resolution to the TUC, the AEF district committee and the union's executive:

"This AEF branch calls upon the TUC to make every possible effort to reinstate the victimized militants of Pilkington. These men are defending a fundamental principlethe right to strike.

'If the labour and trade union movement cannot achieve this there will be little hope of success in combating the Tory proposals against trade unionism in general'