DOUBLE ACTION AT LEWISHAM FACTORY

said. 'At this stage it is not going to influence our position. We took this action long before the Industrial Relations Act came in.

'Ten ushousand In Dunoon. an emergency motion welcoming 'the stand taken by the T&GWU against the £55.000 in fines imposed by the NIRC' was carried unanimously by the Scottish TUC.

The motion instructed the General Council to organize 'solidarity action' in support of the transport union.

A further motion calling on all member bodies of the Scottish TUC. to initiate immediate action in support of any trade unionist or affiliated body victimized by the Act was carried by an overwhelming majority.

All. forms of pressure, including industrial action, should be organized in order to defeat the Industrial Relations Act, and have it removed from the statute book, it said.

LATE NEWS NEWS DESK 01-720 2000 CIRCULATION 01-622 7029 • At Coventry more than 2,000 workers at the GEC telecommunications plant were out on strike yesterday. This followed management attempts to allow staff to carry out work normally done by 120 maintenance men who are on strike over a pay SIXTY workers at the C. A. Parsons, Heaton, Newcastle-onTyne, electrical engineering plant were dismissed yesterday because, their union says, they supported a protest against redundancy NEARLY half of Lancaster University students were denied their grant cheques yesterday after they refused to comply with a: new disciplinary undertaking. They have been on strike over the threatened dismissals English lecturers. dockers FUND NOW AS THE Tories' Industrial Relations Court whips the railmen's leaders into line, the urgent question of building an alternative revolutionary leadership comes right to the fore.

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SWA TUG. RY IAN YEATS London, were told by union officials at a mass meeting to keep their action strictly within the law and to try deadlocked negotiations with management.

Twenty AUEW members of the 1.000-strong factory's machine shop have been on official strike for 13 weeks over a f4-a-week wage claim.

Last Monday GEC laid off 31 men in the 100-per-cent unionized wiring section, including Iwo AUEW shon stewards and a deputy, one from the EPTU and an EPTU branch secretary.

About 40 other workers walked out in protest.

Members of the wiring shop have been staging an overtime ban. work-to-rule and half-day strike once a week since January in support of a f6-a-week pay claim, a 35-hour week and equal pay for women.

Management has offered all the workers a f2 rise. Present average earnings are £22 a week.

AUEW wiring shop steward, Danny Speight, told me: 'Everybody in the wiring section turned up for work on Tuesday despite the lay-off and sat in for a couple of hours.

'Those who were not laid off decided to strike because they considered the trade union officials were being victimized.' Communist Party AUEW convenor Horace Johnson said there were no plans to call out the entire factory in protest against the alleged victimization of union officials.

Workers are confident that GEC will be forced to concede their pay claim and reinstate the laid-off men.

No components are entering the factory across the picket lines and even supplies of food to the canteen have been halted.

At GEC Osram, Erith, the work force has been locked out after a. five-week pay dispute. Convenor J. L. Foley said the fight in the factory was the fight 'for the right to work.

LATE strike MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIOI Sunday May 7 tions Act ! Hands off the trade unions ! Defend democratic r Withdraw troops from Ulster! Release all interner Victory to the Vietnamese workers and peasants For the military defeat of US imperialism! MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN ASSEMBLE: 1.30 p.m. The Embankment, Charing Croas MARCH treet, Tottenham Court, PoddEls no goad G. Healy (Socialist Labour League National Secretary) J. Simmance (Young Socialists National Secretary) M. Banda (Socialist Labour League Central Committee Frank McCabe (NUM) Roy Battersby A. Thornett (Deputy Senior CHAIRMAN C. Slaughter (Socialist Labc NAME …......

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yesterday to restar gue We demand the Right to Work! No retreat from the fight against Street, Tottenham Court :Road, Euston Road MEETING: 4 p.m. St Pancras Town Hail.

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"The executive backed out-after we gave them support-and sowed the seeds for the confusing situation we're in now.

*There can be doubt about it, the employers are organized on national scale. Our national committee has to take some form of national action to answer it. All the engineers should be out.'