Feather steps in TUBE LEADERS

Workers Press no. 34, 13 November 1969 · scan page 2

Topics: Trade union leaders and the TUC, Car industry

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warning to car ROTSKYISTS bid for power in the cár industry' ran the inflammatory headline in the Birmingham Evening Mail' on the eve of last Saturday's All Trades Unions Alliance Motor Workers' Conference.

It headed an article by one Calvin Pugsley purporting to expose the Trotskyist menace in the car industro. Pugsley's article represents the Evening Mail's' contribution to the witch-hunt against car workers that spokesmen for the motor employers have " the past i few. weeks. been busily stoking up over contains the usual potpourri of facts, half-truths, insinuations and downright lies. which characterize every witch-hunt against militants in the "impartial' organs of the press barons. The sets Mintent Trotskyist tone:

a major rally of car workers in Birmingham tomorrow.' The main danger from the conference, it appears, Comthat it challenged the munist Party's "traditional Lead shin bride tan militant and-file car workers'.

Having given account of the preparations of the conference—an account clearly lifted straight from the ages of the Workers Pres -Pugsley goes on to 'deal TUC CHIEF Victor Feather intervened on Tuesd to bring about the last-minute calling off of t planned London Transport guards' strike. As in the miners' - strike only three weeks ago, Feather stepped in to prevent the guards taking action to win their claim for parity with motormen's mileage rates.

The guards' action DAER LINSON-IRISH WESTWARD ARKAYS Rights to Getrich Anort Callaghan on immigration VAUXHALL MOTORShaving recalled all 16,000 workers at its Luton, Dunstable and Ellesmere Port plants—may well be putting into operation the next stage of a plan to force through its notorious new productivity proposals, according to the reports received by the Workers Press.

On Tuesday, 40 workers at the company's Luton plant were interviewed and warned by the management in connection with a walkout for a meeting with shop stewards at the end of last This action has been noted on their record cards and could well count against them