Maxi strike halts Cowley

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The Mersey workers are showing the way forward again on Tuesday when key sections walked oi protest against the company's threat to put the Maxi circuit on short-time.

Sub-assembly workers went home shortly after 11 a.m. following a 30-minute meeting with their stewards outside the plant.

They were closely followed by line two Maxi workers themselves.

After their two-hour meeting earlier in the morning, stewards stressed that their opposition to British-Leyland's plans would continue.

Sections taking action in support of Maxi workers would receive their full it in new backing.

District officials in unions concerned were being called in for a works' conference.

False

Monday's successful token stoppage, had stewardes emphasised, completely given the hie to press suggestions that Morris workers opposed action in defence of their factory-line brothers.

Reports that 'blacklegs' had been able to continue some production the previous day were totally false.

Few workers turned up for Monday's night shift and work remained at a halt.

Several who did go in went home again after discussing the situation with pickets.

Congratulations

In the factory's 'E' block, some of the workers who had opposed strike action last Friday congratulated stewards from the 5/55 T&GWU branch

on their leaflet explaining This stressed that Leyland's proposals to put 1,500 Maxi workers on four days or three nights a week meant 'that every penny of the cut-back must be carried by our members in the plant. This represents a really hard line by the company'.

Linking the company's attitude to their attempts to introduce Measured-Day Work at Cowley, it called for complete opposition to its plans and full support for the policy of the stewards.

It demanded that the reducMaxi 300g rama week in tale programme be dealt with by creating a small pool of labour on a guaranteed wage of 10s ltd an hour.