CAV picket campaign stepped up
By David Maude
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THE BATTLE against closure at CAV Fazakerley, Liverpool, will not be won just by sittingin or by talks with Tory Ministers, a mass meeting at the factory was warned yesterday afternoon.
Senior shop stewards reporting back from Wednesday's meeting with Development Minister Christopher Chataway called for a big tightening up of the picketing campaign they have begun at Merseyside car factories.
The meeting overwhelmingly decided on complete participation by all workers engaged in the seven-week-old occupation of the factory in the picketing campaign.
Dave Martin, engineers' union convenor at the factory, reported that Chataway had been told unequivocally that the 1,000 workers would stay on the site until the Lucas combine, which owns it, agreed to keep them in employment or alternative work was found.
A meeting with the company would take place, soon he said. Yesterday's mass meeting insisted that the leading shop stewards must be involved alongside union officials in such a meeting.
On Sunday, the stewards will appeal to a mass meeting of Liverpool dockers for their support in blacking Lucas products.
The dockers are among the many sections of workers on Merseyside and elsewhere who are giving financial support to the occupation.
Others include Lucas Transport workers in the Midlands, who are also blacking. transport of work normally done from the factory; Vauxhall carworkers from Ellesmere Port; Merseyside construction workers; and engineering workers from the Fisher-Bendix factory at Kirkby, Liverpool, who answered closure threats themselves some months ago with a similar occupation. YOUNG SOCIALISTS XMAS BAZAAR RGAIN, Fast India Dock Rd. E14 Dour