STILL NO ACTION ON VICTIMIZED STEWARD

Workers Press no. 54, 11 December 1969 · scan page 2

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TRANSPORT workers at AEC's Southall factory were persuaded to return to work on Tuesday afternoon after hearing from the convenor and chairman of the shop stewards committee the management's decision to send them home if they continued to strike in support of their victimized shop steward, Tony Richardson.

As reported • in yesterday's son was sacked on Friday on the grounds of his 'attitude to work'.

It is claimed he spent too much time on union business.

He is well known in the factory as a supporter of the All Trades Unions Alliance and an opponent of productivity deals and Measured-Day Work.

The AEC joint shop stewards' committee has still not been called together by the convenor, despite the committee's demand that Richardson be reinstated.

18 months ago 1,000 AEC workers stopped work and marched with manage- ment's permission in support of Enoch Powell's immigration policy.

Unless a fight is raised in the factory to get this steward reinstated, the Powellites will be in control at AEC.

They will fot organize against the management's lans to bring in MeasuredDay Work, speed-up and productivity, and they will not defend those stewards who fight against these plans. strike committee.

THREAT: Saigon newsOthers who signed outside papers yesterday quoted South the strikers' Westminster rally Vietnamese President Nguyen on Monday were AEF execuvan Thieu as saying that three tive councilman Reg Birch; lower house deputies accused London Sheet Metal Workers associating with the district official . Parker; National Liberation Front D. M. United would be beheaded if the National Assembly did not •Morning Star' photographer impeach them. Tony Nicholls A committee is examining The petition has also been the President's charges against signed by eight Transport and the deputies. General Workers' Union and An opposition group in the Woodworkers' Society mem- lower chamber has reacted by bers from Myton's Barbican accusing the President of uilding site including ASW applying the laws of the steward R. J. Treasury jungle.

GREET

LIVERPOOL Sunday, December 14, 7.30 p.m.

Shaftesbury Hotel, Mount Pleasant SHEFFIELD Sunday December 21, 7.30 p.m.

Industries Exhibition Centre

Carver Street (behind City Hall)

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