T&G 'green light' to attend Court

Union. Parsons' order defied THE 1,400 workers at C. A. Parsons, Newcastle, have defied Friday's order from the Industrial Relations Court to call off their work-to-rule.

All members of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' technical. section they are claiming exclusive negotiating rights at the factory and are refusing to work with members of the UK Association of Professional Engineers.

The NIRC's injunction lasts Two thousand join Preston BAC march CORRESPONDENT ABOUT 3,000 Preston in Lancashire in respons the local No. 30 branch and Engineering Unions.

Delegates from Brannon's in Cumberland, British-Leyland Motors, Goss Engineering, Preston dockers and English Electric were present.

They were joined by delegations of Young Socialists from Lancaster, Preston and Leyland. David Creighton-Smith, convenor at the Preston division of the British Aircraft Corporation said at the mass meeting after the march:

'We are: not just fighting for ourselves, but for self-preservation throughout the district. Management must realize that if they to buy our labour, they must pay for it.' George Elliott, chairman of the BAC combine shop stewards. said that the executive had voted against a strike of the combine in support of the Preston division.

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SW4 7UG. trade unionists yesterday marched yesterday to a one-day Confederation until today, when union representatives are due to appear before the court.

Six hundred of the men have been sacked by their action and are working-in with financial aid from the union.

At the Reyrolle factory at Hebburn—part of Parsons' group —4,000 workers have been on strike since Friday in protest against suspension of two welders.

nrough strike called by of Shipbuilding British-Leyland workers, told the meeting he had brought £2,700 from Leyland Motors saying more was to come.

He told Workers Press the Preston area had not been used to marches in the past. But this was the third BAC march which demonstrated the strength of feeling behind the convenors. CEYLON'S Finance Minister He told the court, however, that consideration had been given to compelling the union's leaders to be present in court.

(The NIRC has the legal status of a high court and has thus the power to subpoena witnesses.)

An hour before Donaldson gave his judgement, the TUC issued announcement giving Jack Jones the 'green light' appear before the Tory court when it resumes on Wednesday.

Donaldson yesterday neare further evidence of contempt submitted by Heatons Transport (St Helens) Limited.

The court has already fined the T&GWU a total of £55,000 for contempt and there is a permanent order against the union to restrain it from blacking Heatons' container lorries.

Donaldson said the Heatons application appeared to reveal a continued and more extensive disobedience of the court's orders by the union and therefore raised issues of the greatest gravity.

'We sav "appears" because it would be quite wrong form even provisional view unless and until the union has had opportunity of present and pren. This it has not had planaton. He said the court had seriously considered whether it should not exercise its power to require the attendance Wed. nesday of the union's principal officers.

'In the circumstances, we are content at this stage to leave the question of the representation of the union and attendance by its officers to their own sense of responsibility?

Only 15 minutes' notice was given of the convening of court.

Mr Richard Yorke, OC, for Heatons, said that since second fine- -of £50,000 Heaton, senior BIRMINGHAM Battery workers at a mass meeting yesterday abandoned their fight for every point of the original engineers' national pay claim.

At the suggestion of local union officials they decided instead to demand £3.50 as the minimum they would accept before a return to work.

According to one angry worker who walked out before the end of the meeting, AUEW divisional organizer P. Cresswell told the men that their original claim for a f6-a-week increase was 'unrealistic' and that no management would conceed such a figure. He made no mention of the demands for improved holidays and shorter hours on the original claim.

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The officials are now nandated to put the revised laim to management and repor back to a recalled mass meetin firm has yet to make an offer to the men.