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the £50,000 fine slapped more fines are levied. Even more AUEW. on the Amalgamated shop stewards' bodies which are Union of Engineering without an official lead. Union of Many of committees YOUNG SOCIALISTS XMAS BAZAAR SATURDAY DECEMBER 9 UNIONS and the government are on the brink of a new showdown over The National Industrial Relations Court yesterday gave the AUEW one week to pay up or face sequestration.

But it seems certain that this latest attack by the court will cause outbreaks of industrial unrest throughout the engineering industry.

the AUEW's district are on record deRGAINS CO corn Exchange Leers STEPHEN manding an all-out strike if weak financial state of the The general secretary would be 'defend the policy of the union'. manding an all-out strike if more fines are levied. Even more militant calls have come from. militant calls have come from shop stewards' bodies which are pledged to strike action with or out of those assets or pledged to strike action with or without an official lead.

On Thursday, for example, the north London shop stewards quarterly meeting voted unanimously to withdraw their labour if more fines were levied.

The man at the centre of the storm once more is the president of the NIRC, Sir John judgement yesterday he said that the contempt of the union caused by its persistent refusal to allow Suffolk engineering worker James Goad into branch meetings was the most serious to come before the court so far. pan 12 noon Price Bp IROSHED He warned that the nne would have been greater than the have been greater than the £50,000 made against the TransDort and General Workers' Union éarlier, this year, but for the weak financial state of the AUEW.

•Any fine will have to be paid out of those assets or from contributions from the members, contributions from the members, said Sir John. Executive Council had decided The Executive Council was The Executive Council was any industrial action and the any industrial action and the