THREE DAYS’ STRUGGLE
By Peter Fryer
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VICTORY FOR .BUILDING. WORKERS AFTER ".
' By Our Industrial Corresponlent: ‘BUILDING workers employed by Manchester Corporation Transport Department.-have won their. strike against the employment of four non-unionists. - Within three days‘ the strikers’ ‘solidarity, and the threat of anextension to all departments ‘of Manchester Corporation, led to victory—-the contractors agreed to withdraw the non-union labour if the men failed: to join the union.
_After work was resumed a meeting of nearly 100 building trade. stewards from .all departments, attended by representatives of bus crews and maintenance staffs, resolved to strengthen links at shop steward level between the different sections to ensure even speedier co-ordination in future.
The workers. are raising through their union branches, and through. Manchester. City. Labour Party, the lack of coPETER. FRYER operation from Labour Councillors, who hid behind technicalities instead of supporting the fight to maintain 100 per -cent. trade unionism in the Corporation.
WHY BIRMINGHAM WORKERS. NEED A ‘Several weeks ago Bro. Carron presented on our behalf