Industry Minister

Workers Press no. 996, 13 February 1973 · scan page 14

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Davld Basnett, general secretary of the General and Municipal Workers' Unlon, talks to Press men at the Department of Trade and Industry after leading a deputation to see Tory Industry Minister, Mr Tom Boardman yesterday about the They are embarking on a niggling campaign of works-torule, non-co-operations, and selective stoppages which will demoralize men without achieving anything.

The real way forward for the gasmen's leaders is not to spend all day reassuring the dogooding liberals in Age Concern' and 'Task Force' but to turn to the rest of the trade union movement for complete solidarity, which they would undoubtedly get, for creating the industrial and political conditions to make the Tory government resign.

Wakefield promised for Briant Colour 5 NUMBER of print chapels and trade union branches have passed resolutions calling for a national stoppage in the event of evictions or arrests at Briant Colour Printing, work-in leader Mr Bill Freeman revealed yesterday.

Anthony Wedgwood, Benn, MP. had thrown his weight behind their fight for jobs with a promise to call for government funds to be made available, in effect, to bail out lame ducks.

Thousands of workers are expected to mount a mass picket at the Old Kent Road factory in London today where 105 men and women have been working-in for eight months.

A writ summoning the fivestrong work-in committee before the Chancery Division of the High Court to surrender control of the plant to its owners expires today.

Speakers at a factory gate meeting will include Upper Clyde Shipbuilders joint shop stewards' co-ordinating committee chairman James Airlie, Kent miners' leader Jack Dunn, Labour MP Eric Heffer and print union leaders.

Printers from all over London are expected to be joined by students, engineers, electricians, miners and dockers at the mass picket and in a march to parliament.

Many trades councils claimed to have asked their members to down tools and back the demonstration.

CORRECTION: In yesterday's meeting of Rover shop stewards representing 'direct workers' in all the Midlands plants. This should have read "indirect