Harlech calls off 'pop'

PLANS to hold a pop festival near the village of Tollesbury, Essex, have been called off by the organizers, Great Western Festivals Ltd.

•The company is headed by Lord Harlech and actor Stanley Baker. Their ellgies and those of two other organizers were lynched by villagers in a mass protest against the festival on Wednesday night.

Mr Baker said it was 'most unfortunate' that a number of local people assumed they would go ahead 'whether or not 'the site was suitable, especially as I have stressed that Tollesbury was only one of a number of sites which we had under consideration'.

He said the final venue for the sound be ahole on tear would announced early пехи month. 'We are determined to demonstrate that festivals can be would like to see, That everyone would uke to see See centre • pages: •Night Assemblies Bill: It's not just a question of pop'.

Jane EEF SHUFFLE The Engineering Employers' Federation is losing its director of industrial relations to private TODAY 66 men at ( Faulkner's Ltd Colnbi Slough, Buckinghamshire, tory, including AUEW venor Frank Tomany -out of the gate for the time.

Management claim a sharp fall n February profits aggravated bj n AUBW overtime ban to counteract unemployment is to blame.

The factory shop stewards' committee and the AUEW Slough district committee say that no action could have been taken to fight the redundancies without jeopardizing every job in the factory.

But Mr Tomany (41) charged yesterday: 'I don't think Omes Faulkner's would have shut. They closed their Barnes factory in 1971 and geared up this plant to concentrate all production here.

"The company has not made an absolute loss. Profits have just slipped back.' Pratt Engineering Corporation which owns the factory, grossed £500,000 pre-tax profits last year and paid out an 18 per cent dividend to shareholders.

On March 14 Mr Tomany led 62 men from the maintenance department where he worked on sit-down strike against the sackings. Next, day all the men