Sudbury CAV men meet today on next move Workers demand AUEW calls a strike

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We don't expect that these suggestions will be accepted by the team headed by Mr Neil Cairncross, a deputy undersecretary at the Home Office. STEPHEN JOHNS WORKERS at the CAV engineering plant in Sudbury will meet this morning to decide whether to continue their strike against the €55,000 fine imposed on their union by the National Industrial Relations Court.

The decision to hold a meeting-originally planned for tomorrow-came after three-anda-half hours of discussion in which shop stewards from Sudbury met stewards from the three other factories in the Lucas combine in the south east.

A leading steward said after the meeting that no specific recommendation would be put to the men, but there would be a reappraisal of the situation in the light of events throughout the engineering industry since Sudbury came out on strike on Monday.

I understand that the Sudbury workers got no specific pledge from other Lucas stewards in the south east that they would be backed by indefinite strike action.

Representatives of 12,000 workers from the Lucas complex at Acton, west London, the group's Rochester and Motors of Finchley, north London, were present at the meeting. venor of the sudborworks said there would be no specific recommendation put before the men.

'We want to call a meeting to put to the nembers the latest developments. We will make Hospital workers pay law strike Some workers waiting for the result of the meeting expressed their anger that the leadership of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers has not called openly for national strike action.

One told me: I don't think a one-day strike 'WHAT'S needed is a clear-cut call', AUEW assistant secretary E. Roberts said yester. day. 'This isn't just a fight against Goad or the $55,000. What's involved is the Industrial Relations Act and the Seath. decision yesterday. is adequate. We had the one day strikes before the Bill was law and they did not stop it. The union should call out everyone in the country The Sudbury plant was the first to give a lead against the fine. It is there that James whole of the trade union movement.

"The alternative to actively defending our policy of non-co-operation, our finances and our union itself is a defeat which will hit the whole movement? On the march in London (I to r) Leslie Ayles, Chris Potter, Margaret IN LONDON thousands converged on the DHSS's Elephant and Castle headquarters shouting 'Heath Out!' and carrying banners declaring 'Hospital Pay Makes Me Sick!' and 'Heath Freezes Pay At A Stroke!' "This is just the start. What Heath's doing to us amounts to a wage cut,' said Leslie Ayles, who works at the Tooting blood bank.

I'm one of the better paid and I only get £19 a week. Out of that I've got to find £6.10 rent which has just gone up £l.

'We obviously don't want to strike, and the Tories think we would never do it. But now we've been pushed too far by the government.' Chris Potter, aporter at Tooting, told me he took home £17 a week. 'I have to clean out the bins, do the laundry, sweep Willi!

ONLY 13 days to compiete our £1,750 target. This month we aim to raise our total before Christmas. So let's step up the fight today. We still have £1,136.20 left to raise.

Engineers now find themselves at the centre of the fight against the Tories and their Industrial Relations Act. Trade unionists all over the country must come to their support and back them up all the way. Our basic rights are under attack, but action by the working class will force this government to resign.

HIll Engineers at Sudbury walt to hear thet stewards' YOU Goad, the Colchester evangelist, works. He took the union to the NIRC over the refusal of the local Sudbury branch to admit him to meetings.

A move to commit the south eastern group of Lucas to strike action at yesterday's meeting was defeated by the right wing.

Instead verbal solidarity was offered to the Sudbury workers. This did not help to strengthen the resistance of the Sudbury men who have been on strike since Monday. the roads, wash the dishes and keep the blood banks in order.

'We've a great deal on our hands looking after people. If we don't get what we want there will be utter chaos. We should have an all-out strike.' Mrs Margaret Seath (65) a domestic ward from Queen Mary Hospital, Roehampton, said she took home a pitiful £14 a week. I live on my own and my rent is £5 a week, ' she told me.

*This bloody governments is ruining us. Look at the rents, prices all going up. It's time hospital workers got on their feet and time this government got out.' Worker after worker showed me wage slips giving their take-home pay. 'Look at this" 14.35 for 40 Colchita Rowland, hours. And I have to do the work of four at my hospital.' a lead in this fight. Our paper must be kept out in front to prepare for the great struggles ahead. We are confident that all your support is behind us. Help us, therefore, with a very special effort for December's Fund. Extra amounts are needed. Post these immediately to :

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