Ten-man advisory body set up

MEMBERS and supporters of tr Unions Alliance from most of Bri and car components firms met in on Saturday.

Reports on a wide range of problems facing workers in the different plants were discussed—in particular the fight against unemployment, short -time working and productivity deals.

Fraternal greetings, and a report on the situation on the French car industry, were brought by workers from Renault and Citröen.

ten-man car industry advisory committee affiliated to the All Trades Unions Alliance was set up, based on representatives from major plants.

Attending the conference were rank-and-file workers and shop stewards from British - Leyland's Morris Motors, Oxford; BMC Service, Oxford; Tractor and Transmission, Birmingham; PressedSteel Birmingham; Pressed-Steel Fisher, Swindon;

Austin, Longbridge; StandardTriumph, Liverpool; AEC, Southall; Delaney-Galley, Wellingborough and Leyland Motors, Leyland, plants.

Contingents from Ford's Halewood, Southampton and Dagenham plants; Vauxhall's factories at Luton, Dunstable and Ellesmere Port and from Rootes, Linwood, were also maker region, Dunlop and present. From came Coventry Radiators.

The car components side was represented by stewards and workers from Morgan Crucible, London, and from five Joseph Lucas combine plants - Lucas-CAV, Liverpool; Lucas, Birmingham; CAV, Acton; Girling's, Bromborough and Simms Motor Units, London.

NEED A LEAD

The mood of the conference was caught by one Ellesmere Port Vauxhall steward, who said:

I'm here today because we need a leadership in the motor industry, we've been let down from every quarter so far.' There was a will to fight the management's new productivity proposals in the Merseyside plant, an instinct that something was wrong.

'We had the company licked, but then we got the lumbar punch, the knife in the back from our own officials.' If any carworker was faced with a Measured-Day Work scheme, the steward warned, 'leave. it alone or you'll end up like Ford's and Vauxhall's'.

The All Trades Unions Alliance had given a lead in fighting these deals.

After describing the 'carveup' of Vauxhall workers that had been organized by union officials to push through acceptance of the company's productivity, proposals, the steward made one final point (Vauxhall's US director).

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