Engineers' chiefs take Sir John's tip

Workers Press no. 786, 8 June 1972 · scan pages 11, 12

Topics: Engineering, Industrial Relations Act, Police and the courts

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By correspondent industrial THREE trade unionists yesterday gave evidence for the police in the trial of 13 miners who are charged with mobbing DESPITE engineers' Hugh Scanlon's persistent condemnation of the Tory anti-union law and the National Industrial Relations Court, his union has accepted the NIRC's In response to Sir. John Donaldson's tip last Monday, the union's executive have decided to bring an official strike by 18 welders at the Expanded Metal Co's works, Hartlepool, into line with the Act.

The welders have been told to give seven days notice of their 13-week-old strike over a party Claim so that they are no longer The eight-page which leads the the Tory govern right to work, schools and C queues.

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So far AUEW officials have not appeared at the court, but the line between refusing to cooperate with it while studiously obeying it is, to say the least, thin.

The engineers have already been weakened by abandoning a fight on their national wage claim in favour of the disastrous policy of plant bargaining.

Meanwhile, in the Appeal Court in London yesterday, the AUEW was ordered not to take further industrial action. for the next seven days at the Hartlepool factory. On the application of Expanded Metal, the court granted a temporary order against the union and a full hearing will begin within he next week. OF THE YOUNG SOCIALITE Plenty of news, views features at 3p a copy.

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AGE 12 Workers Press, Thursday June 8, 1972