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A 33-page document putting the manThis will be discussed at a special district their case.

1933-1934 ENGINEERS in Coventry are holding a special investigation into the case of John Worth, a Chrysler worker who has had his shop steward's credentials removed by management. agement case has been circulated to members of the Coventry district committee of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. committee meeting next Tuesday which Mr Worth and the convenor of Chrysler's Stoke plant, Ray Wild, will attend to put Andy Boyle, AUEW district yesterday that they would not t firm or accept deadlines.

'As far as we are concerned John Worth is still our shop steward. The management has put its case and we are considering it,' he said.

Mr Boyle could not say whether next week's meeting would make any final decision on the matter.

Mr Worth was originally sacked by Chrysler for allegedly refusing to attend meetings with management. This led to a strike of 4,000 engineers. Mr Worth was eventually reinstated, but the firm refuse to recognize him as a shop steward.

AUEW divisional organiser Frank Chater has pointed out that only the union can withdraw the credentials of a steward and the men in Mr Worth's engine test section still recognize him as their representative.

Mr Worth believes the firm took action because of consistent opposition to their Measured-Day Work plans.

£1.43 CORRESPONDENT said rushed by £2 Prestige offer ALMOST 100 worker Prestige Group Ltd Burnley, have rejected offer and imposed an ban in support of their an extra £7 a week.

Men at the factory, owned by the American Home Products Group, say the offer falls far below their demand and fails to adequately take into account the extra work they will have as a result of a job-evaluation scheme due to be implemented from January 1. , at the factory, a £2 pay overtime claim for THIS Some of the immigrant textile workers now in their fourth week of strike.

OFFICIALS were still attempting to end the four-week strike by 500 im. UNION workers at the Loughborough plant of the Mansfield Hosiery Mills yestermigrant day.

An eight-point peace plan drawn up by management and union officials was rejected by a mass meeting on Tuesday evening.

The workers, all either Indian or Pakistani, have been demanding an end to alleged job discrimination inside the factory and a £5 pay award for the lowest earners.

'Also™ sought are guarantees of no victimization after a return to work.

Yesterday only the question of the pay award for the bar-loaders, who are on a f20 basic, was outstanding.

But under pressure from officials of the Na tional Union of Hosiery and Knit vear Workersled by president Peter Prendergast-the strike committee has SCAB FROM PHILIP WADE IN LOUGHBOROUGH shifted from its original demand for an immediate pay increase.

'Although we don't accept the government's freeze, we can't do much about it if the union leaders say nothing can be done,' said D. Patel, a strike committee member. • They were prepared to accept payment. at the end of the 90 days, but he could not say what would happen if the Tories carried through their plans to make pay laws permanent. especially pick however, bar - loaders, declared they would not return to work unless any increase was paid immediately. It's no use to us next year. We want it now, said one of the strikers.

The Mansfield Hosiery Company owns nine other plants outside Loughborough, mainly in the borough plant 37 men in 1967, 37 were sacked after coming out on strike.

Throughout this strike union leaders have refused official backing. And more • than 200 workers, all members of the union, are still inside the plant.

Support has come from lorry drivers who have refused to cross the picket line. One of the strikers' main complaints has been racial discrimination. The Race Relations Board recently claimed that the union and management had discriminated against the men.

Strikers say they have difficulty in getting up-graded because they are immigrant workers. not been made official,' said 'We're disgusted this strike has Mr Patel.

He said many men were so fed up they were talking of forming their own breakaway union.