Various London sites come out again Building strikes flare

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT DISPUTES have flared on sites despite the general 26-month, pay-trap settlemi leaders.

Pickets from the World's End site, Chelsea, were out at the nearby Ashburnam Primary. School site yesterday.

World's End came out completely within four hours of the return over the refusal of a subcontractor to pay the new rates to their bricklayers. Since the walk-out two men working for another sub-contractor have been sacked.

ENGINEERS strike the Lower Clyde shipyards have voted by a two-to-one majority to continue their 14-week-old stoppage. The 750 men on strike are claiming a substantial wage increase and improved conditions. Several weeks ago they rejected the national settlement signed by the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers leadership stating that it fell short of their demands. Yesterday's voting was 230 to 108.

Soclallst Labour LECTURES THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MAR given by (SLL national Liverpool Historical materialism toda Tuesday September 26 AEU HOUSE Mount Pleasant Liverpool 1, 7.30 Sit-in textile workers hope to inspire action TEXTILE WORKERS оссируing their Great Yarmouth factory for the right to work hope their action will inspire the rest of the working class in this Norfolk town.

Over 340 of them occupied the Gainsborough Cornard factory nine days ago when they found out by accident that management intended to shut down immediately.

In fact the plant is part of the giant Carrington-Viyella group, which in turn is 49 per cent owned by the monopoly ICI.

It is one of the few stable places of employment in this small town on the North Sea and has been established there since 1812.

'Yarmouth people have always been told what to do, to work in the summer and be unemployed in the winter, be laid off and not to strike-often by the boardinghouse keepers', convenor Dave Arnold told me yesterday.

Now we sincerely hope the rest of the working class here will say "You lit the torch and we'll carry it on"; added Dave, a Labour councillor.

Unemployment in the winter at the end of the tourist season rose to over 2,000 last year-8 per cent of the male working The only other big employers in the town are Bird's Eye and the Erie electronics company, who give work to 4,000 between them.

'Our policy is clear, added Dave. 'We are fighting for our jobs-we want work and will stay here until something is decided.' The morale of the occupiers— mostly members of the Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers several Lc return to nt agreed Yesterday's picket was designed to bring out bricklayers employed by the first subcontractor on the primary-school site.

The dispute has been by the building workers' action committee.

Official backing from the Transport and General Workers' Union may be given to a fivemonth-old dispute at Guildford Street, . London, now resumed following the general return.

There a steel-fixing firm is trying to force two steel-erectors onto the labour-only subcontracting system, the 'lump'.

But the Fulham Hospital site returned to work yesterday after dismissed shop steward Charlie Kelly was unconditionally reinstated.

• Merseyside building workers, who are still on strike against the national deal, will meet again today.

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'We've since felt more determined to ficht because it was clear he was not interested in us. No one wants to be paid off. How cheaply do we sell ourselves? For two or three weeks' pay?' said Dave.

The men feel there has been a deliberate and planned attempt to shut the plant down. Since the take-over by Gainsborough Cornard two years ago they have machines. shifted out several new. advanced Another suspicion is that the 14-acre site might be involved in neanertu dool Tha factoru is YS Right-to-Work campaign ıdon building work on the by the union backed London rx/a strugs FROM PHILIP WADE IN GREAT YARMOUTH situated in a prime position from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Park.

Best reception yet MINERS and youth turned out to greet enthusiastically the Right-to-Work march at Sacristan, Co Durham, on Tuesday.

Sacristan, a colliery town of 2,000 people, suffers from the scourges of unemployment, depopulation and a lack of any facilities for youth.

One housewife supporting the march said that she had to pay £2,000 for a terraced house built more than a century ago Police question pickets at the World's End site, London, yesterday.

Swan men reject McGarvey SWAN HUNTER boilermakers on Tyneside yesterday decisively voted down a personal bid by union leader Dan McGarvey to end their fortnight-old pay strike. By a five-to-one majority in a secret ballot, they decided to stick out for a 17t-per-cent cost-of-living rise despite McGarvey's warning that the Industrial Relations Act might be used against them. The company has told the 3,800 men that it will not negotiate their claim 'under duress'.

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'We want support from the entire trade union movement, including all textile workers throughout the industry. We must remember that the background to all this is the mass unemployment of l million workers, said Dave.

The workers' representatives will be meeting management on September 27 and plan a mass march through the town this Saturday. texțile workers"" sit-in Financial SuDDort for can sent to: c/o Dave Arnold, 15 Forsvthia Road Gorleston nanar nima forn r and sold by colliery years before.

'On top of that I had £500 to have the house modernized,' she added.

Two girls joined the march at Sacristan and walked four miles to the next town, Chesterle-Street. apprentice hairdresser in the AnnrentiCA halrorasser village, works 48 hours a week for £4. 'In two years' time I'll get only 73p more, . she said. 10 blame for split ence of the All Trades Unions Alliance at Birmingham on October 22. We urge all shipyard workers to attend this conference and participate in this discussion. • See What We Think p. 2.

BRITISH-LEYLAND Austin Morris division has suspended 302 production workers on the Adderlev Park East. Birmingham, assembly line in a dispute over the plant's closure. All production at the plant was stopped yesterday.

The suspensions followed management warnings that unless the men dropped their two-monthold work-to-rule and overtime ban, the assembly tracks would stopped. In the past few weeks the 302 men have intensified their action with a series of one-day stoppages every Monday.

Under rationalization plans announced 18 months ago assembly is to be moved to the Birmingham Common Lane body plant. Five hundred jobs have been guaranteed there for the men disnlaced from Adderlev naanrAarn 11 VALL The reception that the marches received at Chester-leStreet was easily the best of the whole march. Factory workers from the new housing estate turned out to welcome them and to buy Workers Press. Forty papers were sold in 20 minutes.

One building worker, only days back at work after the 12week strike, said: " support any movement to get the Tories out.' He donated 35p to the march fund.