Round-the-clock picket possible at E. Kilbride

A ROUND-THE-CLOCK picket by members of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundryworkers may be introduced at the Better Sound Reproductions (BSR) factory, East Kilbride, where nearly 1,000 workers, mostly women, have been on strike since August 13.

Their aim is to force the BSR management to recognise their right to join and be represented by a trade union.

Mr. William Donald, the AEF's mid-Lanark district secretary has stated that although drivers in the Transport and General Workers' Union and Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union were 'blacking' delivery of materials, goods were still being transported to and from the factory.

This appears to be done mainly at night by non-union drivers employed by the firm.

It is estimated that the firm is continuing to maintain about 65 per cent production.

Not met BSR management has not met representatives of any trade union or the Department of Employment and The TUC has asked Mrs. Barbara Castle to refer the matter to the Commission on Industrial Relations.

If it were the workers who were refusing to recognise an agreement proposed by the management, there is no doubt that Mrs Castle's DEP would have acted with all speed to resolve the matter-in the interests of the employers. Vauxhall struggle reached TOMORROW'S talks on Vauxhall's proposed 'penal clause' pay agreement must be watched closely by every one of the company's 27,000 workers.

No confidence can be By David Maude placed, after the experience of the Ford strike earlier this year, in mere declarations of opposition to the disciplinary aspects of the deal.

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Confined

The astronauts will still be confined to a relatively small area in the vicinity of their vehicle.

However, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to provide future expeditions from 1971 with an electrically-driven vehicle capable of carrying two astronauts and their equipment at 10 mph across the lunar surface. Critical stage (AEF) instructions to return to work so that talks with the company can go ahead.

They stayed at home.

The men have refused to obey instructions to resume from both executive councilman Mr Arthur Hearsey and the union's Wirral and West Cheshire district committee.

It is ominous that Mr Richard Hopkins, Vauxhall's personnel director, was able to describe last Thursday's Brighton talks with Hearsey and officials of the National Union of Vehicle Builders (NUVB) and the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) about the proposed company-wide pay agreement as 'useful.

What can any principled union official have to say that is useful to employers about a deal that includes clauses agreeing to co-operation with time-studies, the dropping of restrictions on the work done by women and the doubledisciplining of unofficial strikers ?

Reject deal

Complete rejection of the deal must be secured.

Shop stewards at Luton, Dunstable and Ellesmere Port must immediately campaign amongst their members for action throughout the com-