Swan's strikers stay out

Workers Press no. 886, 5 October 1972 · scan page 11

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A MASS meeting of 3,000 Tyneside boilermakers at Swan Hunter's shipyards yesterday decided to continue their four-week-old strike for a £4.70 cost-of-living increase.

Their decision was a rebuff for Dan McGarvey, Boilermakers' Society president who on Tuesday night called yet again for a return to work.

McGarvey was speaking to reporters at the Blackpool Labour Party conference.

Ivor Mitchell, speaking on behalf of the apprentices who on Monday voted to support the strike with work sanctions, told the meeting that individual apprentices were being victimized by foremen.

Terry Daley, secretary of the shop stewards' committee, told "There is no chance of boilermakers going back for a £2 increase. The TUC should never have gone into talks with the Tories. They're just enmeshing themselves in a spider's web.' THE FRENCH Communist Party weekly 'Les Lettres