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Jobs scarce following Ford closure handed books THERE are still over 400 men signing on at the dole office L in Doncaster as a result of the recent Ford closore there of those Plymouth and managed to find jobs but they Wiltshire! ei have been Many workers family ties and do : lowes : rate 7s. 6d. an houl : but some Although Men in the gang were handed taken jobs in other fac- play of the Mr. J. A. their books by the employers for being given to the workers in Truline Bras Ltd., because there was no work for enabling them to move to Liverpool, very few of them have, of the in 6 The for the firm for Akers returned, g de- ley, leader of ments, are relating been the article practice in the and maintain that the ie! cided to continue the strike wives, called on only appearing page 4 of for the bosses to retain the Vol. 8, No. 337, local Ministry dated 14th eaded 'Truline March, 1964. office has offered the workers said: 'We are prepared to tell the jobs in the steel mills at Scun- because, he Laid Off author. on with this strike, with execu- his own b thorpe. This leaving appears to us to be based on by the extension of the Winter tive committee backing, closing? He was by the press, morning and returning Doncaster at 6 o'cloc in the accordance with a "staff In last week's which has attacked o'clock at night. too bright. pression of the course The article gives a the was reported that difficulty was the strikers. the time bus for coal miners; the railways at the factory and this impres- Union decision shocking conditions on this job being experienced in "blacking' have the being 'reorganised' with no sion should be corrected. Any books Labour Board Regulation In an interview Leamington, work for Raleigh Since Lockheed, then the support for this Contributions should journey it is Other jobs offered to family hardly worthwhile. to spare and another firm in has recently declared decision by the of the fa of your its, is led to as a result of a Wages Inspector newspaper, management has seit daily. ed on tough that for six worked on London Transport Newsletter, ex-conductor Lionel Maloney from Barbados, who years, told how he was the strike and their at Loc to A. Street, J. Holmes, 80 include labouring jobs on result ( of its The workers redundant. ›f Ford's drive situation in Doncaster, prosperous town, is the bigger that it could 'thin edge on March 3 for allegedly to beat rivals. some girls were laid off of the wedge' Catherine's hitting a youth with his ticket It is significant tha and that Docks. machine when he was attacked. primarily against After the offence, which took Liverpool coincides bers. This leads out until the management place on January 18, Maloney with th e cutting in price of suppose that union taken to a police station trade Anglia, which has enabled part in a recent strike. were being victimised and detained for about five been shown at the annual steal a lead its hours. His now renamed, Scottish Commercial Motormen's laid off for one week only, fact the girls concerned assault. He Ferguson, Man- put forward Delegate J. McGuigan criticised Labour leaders a plan for the integration and nationalized Only if th and are now back in the Com- pany's employment. They were lea £20 bail. All work Raleigh has can situations like "blacked' at Fort Dunlop informed beforehand as to the reasons for the laying off which main suppliers of for tion, which had по connection with the Raleigh cycles-and men for the next Inspector's decision. merely coincidence was the by Sewing Clydebank, Scotland, workers from the Singer Machine factory at Union branch secretary, for who have held Dunlops fact, industry immediately *nationalize the transport The workers are in dispute send supplies to Raleigh by same day that the management with the management over In court Sutton Coldfield transport firm took action a bottleneck centive payments introduced unofficially on Monday, but one in work, had factory a result of modernisation of the and the introduction of voked the Maloney and abusing fight by by of their lorries pickets led was turned back strike leader, er policy in pro- racialist terms. Ken Hooley. ide girls were laid In spite of this, Maloney The mass On given a conditional discharge speeches were narks of the sewing strike the National and order 13 guineas pporters the union's secretary and thirty Over Unio: i of General and Muni- Alex Kitson. members of the Nat onal Union executive council has Workers warned the men tion. On the last of Vehicle Builders walked off taking steps to stroy any Whether or not these girls are with The he launched the truck assembly line at the union is not the the union is not be an appeal, ort in the on the strikers at British Motor Corporation, work and Motor Corporation temporary laying-off. The Com- vant to the question of retained only those mach- who were at the which kers mass Under this decided stewards meeting to go back of Friday. strikers the Divisional Office o Transport and sacked On March 3 he 'un- in more tinued, it will help other sections big factori strike, particularly of Raleigh, is 's is con- the strike only way dragged into the gate, union workmates who the dismissal They were by a ensuring that 'slip-man'—a 'left one of their his job against end of groups compulsorily number of More than branches three ied into will be by explaining the importance of who replaces other workers 'militant victory' article raises Company with the the factory. This good working condi- but merely to question of which your not con- FORTY-THREE welder mem- bers of the United Society of Structural Workers went strike on Tuesday, just 12 days Boilermakers, Shipbuilders on interview advised him to send a operating manager. TGWU have taken no He rejected this idea, this fight against at policy of Alderman Cornelius the hostile interfer- Nottingham's Lord redundancies *assist Bathgate workers to support co-ordination between the wor- kers and the trade unions to Mr. He went the Scottish Kitson tions to take The line place for the re- the dismissed by George Woodcock and the union along right-wing's ally right wing is the first plans the lines Trades run and will continue after they had returned to at the Bradford branch of Inter- The Newsletter has 'militant' our consistent policy. national Harvesters following a of other attacks Woodcock-wing to make his peace with the tive tion of malice on the Company's any imputa- followed the procedure in ten-day strike. The exhaustion the men's dispute has all who are colol h time, hov dissatisfied ever, with the area full-time with every five which may have for skilled nstead semi- COi article. skilled Other of the Each National Union of Vehicle joined of the tection on certain routes. Tory form by a candidate at a out on This type of "The Times' of March 10 union structure are, like defend themselves Maloney, open Trade Union of the Scottish Ur Advisory out national leadership'. certainly strengthen strike against speed-up OVER 300 men engaged North-West Merseyside work are cookers is insist should appeal the time has come to prosecution and the sack. are noted for double crews The TGWU must be these attacks and to Trades on routes which Coun- Aberdeen Town Council has re- setting up, disputes and union of a union A plan with legal backing, court to proposed which all perly. sacked worker refused tr job and his workmates line before discussed , do left to accept policie: leadership to force its weaken the limited available to and make The changes will such easier undoub: control of cooker fixing which have The unions cils, Labour Parties and of 19 to 11. employers sent restraint. been introduced in give the scheme a tri il run, but branches assist 1,000 workers from the These The new scheme has immediate end to have at the end of found that to do this a coloured If the union submits its members is tried to frighten the trade unions the boycott, have ed by be binding and sanction- law. decision of Any trade union An from Mr. Alex Kitson, against the strike the Commercial inheriting tion of the Labour government Tory the possible economic probWhen the men refused to assisting in and labour movement into sub- member who took action not Motormen's Union who con- The mates, a system which has been the scheme after the trial intimidation of mission by threatening severe sanctioned by their officials demned unofficial strikes in the follow the situation closely. It run a shop steward was sacked, weakening the unemployment if the would be to the civil tort motor industry at the close of is hoped to bring our readers Immediately the fitters downed for decent wages and conditions. carries out its decision. of breach id would his own union's further of Under with specially con- bringing out tools and have IN the fight for socialism, The of relatively Aberdeen is already lose their by the act structed They ha ve to vans and a the old tracting firms Despite concerted pressure role. Newsletter is playing a vital Do you get it regularly? ment and this action by the would deliberately Obviously the invitea cooker, install the Gas Board the plumbers are Don't leave it to the chance present one and are determined, along with the con- fill in this form and the bill after tracting men, that they will not law are accept the new scheme. They Department, This to operation: demanding the reinstatement 186a Clapham that a closely time checked and vans are equipped with the shop steward and two London, S.W.4. rank and other men sacked for opposing for 8s. fight of the African people to And this control equipment for cor bring down Verwoerd his own checking with the Name lead the The plumbers the if the ra ary, Registered at the G.P. O. as a newspaper Trades Union Wing the support o District