MEN ON DAILY MIRROR SITE
1959The NewsletterWilliam Hunter Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
BUILDING workers on the Daily Mirror site at Holborn Circus, London, have given W. C. French two days to reinstate their Federation steward, Brother Joe Saunders.
If he is not back on that site by Friday, January 30, the 130 men on the jub will down tools again. This was the decision of a mass meeting on Wednesday.
Bro. Saunders was one of six men sacked at the end of last week for alleged bad timekeeping. The workers felt that this was an excuse to get rid of their steward, and took strike They went back on Wednesday after a disputes commission had asked the union and French’s to get together in order to reinstate the Federation steward. , The men are insisting that Bro. Saunders be reinstated on the Daily Mirror site, and not on some small, out-of-the-way job—a device sometimes used in the past to isolate militants.
CONVENER BLASTS UNION LEADERSHIP:
OFFICIAL FINDS THINGS ‘STICKY’
TRENCHANT Criticism of the attitude of the Amalgamated Engineering Union executive to the Harland and Wolff strike is expressed in a statement to The Newsletter by convener David Forfar.
‘The employers hope that we will be defeated by a lack of finance—and we must also conclude that our own executive shares this viewpoint,’ he declared.
‘This can be the only reason for their failure to grant recognition to our strike, and so give our members dispute benefit.’
The eighty-three fitters are now in the eighth week of their strike against sackings and victimization. Glasgow district committee of.the AEU has endorsed the strike three times, but the executive has twice refused recognition on the ground of ‘lack of information’.
The executive’s attitude is perhaps revealed by what Mr Alex Hinton, Glasgow district organizer, said in an interview with the Scotsman:
“While the executive council may have one hundred per cent.
sympathy with the people in the dispute, if they recognize this dispute the employers will be down on them like a ton of bricks. It is a tremendously sticky position.’
In an effort.to break the bottle-neck inside the factory the management tried to get apprentices to do the strikers’ work. The lads met, decided not to touch ‘black’ work—and all applied to join the union.
The strike committee, which has the unanimous backing of the fitters, is mobilizing maximum support throughout Clydeside. There is urgent need for financial help.
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