6,000 out over Maxi cut-back

CAR PRODUCTION was halted at Morris Motors, Cowley, on Monday when 6,000 workers struck for the day against the company's threat to introduce shorttime working on the new Maxi circuit.

Pickets were joined by women canteen staff, who struck in sympathy with the No food for the few hundred blacklegs who cross the line!

Stewards were encouragec y the solidity of the strike 'It's an even better response than there was to the May 1 stoppage, commented one senior steward.

Much has been made by Fleet Street of the narrow majority for strike action at last Friday's mass came out at any cost on time.

During the war, in the period of illegality, when he was responsible for the techbut most workers supported the stewards' call, issued after a meeting on Friday afternoon, for the strike to go Maxi line steward Tom MacNicholas told the Workers Press: I'm for all out strike action until the company meets our demands in full.

'Their treatment of the Maxi workers has been scandalous. I don't think we've had four full weeks since the beginning of the year.' The company has now cut back its production programme by 300 cars a week and is hoping to put 1,500 men on four days or three nights.

Each man would thus lose between £5 and £8 a week, if this is carried out.

For the first time the company has refused to deal with the programme reduction by creating a labour pool.

Stewards see this as part of the management's campaign to weaken the fierce resistance of Morris workers to their plans for the introduction of Measured-Day Work.

British-Leyland, they say, must bend all its efforts to do this before the new £70 million development opens up in 18 months time.

The Maxi dispute thus involves every section of the factory, insists a leaflet issued by the T&GWU 5/55 branch yesterday morning, calling for complete opposition to company's plans.

repercussions at Morganite's Battersea (London) factory, which is to close in two years, with the transfer of some workers to South Wales.

Provisions in the agreement include almost complete flexibility of labour in the trade and production departments.

Under the Measured-Day Work payments system agreed Morriston, failure to achieve production targets will mean bonus loss or some other unspecified disciplinary measures.

Tea-breaks and washing times are to be cut completely out of the working day, it seems.

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