Vauxhall militancy rising
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Industrial Roporter THE atmosphere at the Liverpool factory of Vauxhall Motors can only be described as 'boiling over' About 2,000 workers remain at work and the factory is running rapidly to a standstill.
Many of the militants are incensed and feel that the company is victimizing them. As one steward told the Workers' Press :
"The management is getting hysterical'.
While the work to rule is general throughout the factory, workers claim that the company is trying to split them by laying off some men and not others.
Laid off
The company is alleged to have laid off men whose job it is to ensure safety asked workers operating machines without safety workers, signing them out when they refuse to work under these conditions.
Night-shift men have been kept on in some jobs while their day-shift counterparts have been laid off, it is claimed.
A mass meeting of Vauxhall workers is due to be held in the next few days.
The Vauxhall workers must cut across the confusion caused by the present situation in the factory.
In the present situation, a firm call for strike action, linked to other • sections of the combine, will meet with a solid response and open the way to smashing the 'penal clause' deal. for the press, and the press itself.
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