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Lawrence adjourned

By Gary Gurmeet

Workers Press no. 311, 25 November 1970 · scan page 2

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'Wet money' attack sparks HOPES OF a possible settlement out of court were ex pressed yesterday by counse tenants. John Leckie, appearing for Mi John Lawrence, FOC of th Press Association chapel of SOGAT, Division 1, in his dispute with four officials of the recently-formed National thunderbolt'. Society of Operative Printers and Assistants.

On November 10 Mr Law- - has rence was granted an ex parte order restraining four leaders of NATSOPA-including Mr Richard Briginshaw-from purporting to exercise disciplinary howensdover him eprivedmin had been deprived live on, she told us. union membership.

Mr Lawrence claims he was not consulted about secession of SOGAT Division 1 from SOGAT and the re- to pay for it.' formation of NATSOPA.

The vice chancellor of the High Court, Sir John Pennycuick, said that December 1] had been fixed for a full ing up and re-building.' hearing of Mr Lawrence's application.

But if an agreement was reached between the parties before then the matter should cil flat she now lives in. be mentioned to him.

Meanwhile the ex parte order would continue.

very hard,' she commented.

'Ludicrous' La two-roomed flat.

offer — NUJ CENTRAL London branch committee of the National off victims again. rejected totally unacceptable' a revised salaries offer made by the minee Assofinancially. pledged continued over 3,00 bur and Manchester. s in London average maintaining them.' day at Christmas if they are out for long, but they are determined to defend their conditions against a management attack which threatens all formal agreements.

The site is due to close in 1971 and there is a formal agreement with the management that severance pay will be forthcoming for workers declared redundant. lour offe council's housing committee, Pouk, in the NW of the is in line with the govern- country.

The attack is probably a prelude to a thrust against Battambang, the second largest Cambodian city.

Following closely the effects Fighting broke out in of the Tory 'mini-Budget', the Battambang yesterday and rent increases will come into the US-backed Lon Nol operation next April and aroving woops up from the was considering covers all the council's 14,000 nearby town of Siem Reap.

To most working-clas The government troops overs all the council's 14.501 defending the district headfamilies it will come, as one Press sterife told Workers yesterday, "like Mrs Iris Cole-living on one of Lewisham's council estates from bronchitis and, she says, to dampness in the

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