'Our action supported' CAV steward

PHILIP WADE

DEFEND our union, we've got to fight'—this call from a union nion official echoed throughout the industry yesterday as the strikes against the anti-union laws aws gathered momentum.

The action began at a mass nass meeting in Sudbury, Suffolk, folk, when workers at the CAV-fac- factory struck after a mass meeting. ring. They condemned the £50,000 ,000 fine imposed on the engineers" union by the industrial court, and criticized James Goad, the CAV Sudbury employee who brought the case against the union.

News of the Sudbury strike : got this right, he stresses. ters' Mike Stares the courts or anyone else telling us who we who day's strike vote. 'Once that happens rea the trade unionism has just gone!' read insisted. to the men at the storm-centre of the strike movement against the industrial court's fine on the engineers' union.

Mike Stares has no regrets about turning James Goad away from the Sudbury branch of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. Like Melvin Wiseman, the other CAV steward named in Goad's first complaint in the industrialcourt, he regards this action as defence of a basic right. a basic right.

All workers must now act in defence o All workers must now act this right, he stresses.

Mike Stares •We can't have the government, the let into the union, Mike said after yester.

Strike action was the only course open to the trade union movement now, he *Our action should be sup be supported by everyone. *What this fine shows, of course, is that when we had the Bill in front of us we should have fought it to a finish before it became the Industrial Relations Act. Every union should have made that its businesseven if it meant a General Srike. *Perhaps what's happening the AUEW will bring it home people. *Maybe those other unions who have been wavering will learn the lesson and take action to show this government where we stand. They've got to. This is the only language the, Tories know,"

Goad not talking JAMES GOAD, the man at the centre of the attack on the AUEW, stayed at home yesterday deep in prayer. The Press who went to his thatched cottage in the Suffolk village of Wattisham were told by Goad: I'm afraid I can't comment. My solicitor and barrister have both said it is in my own best interests not to comment any more to the Press." He said he would spend his time at home opening a 'considerable number of letters he had received from all over Britain. Nearly all were in support of the stand he had taken, he said. Goad is a former Baptist evangelist who still goes to chapel three times a week. At