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TUC But more importantly the strike has shown that a powerful and determined employer-ready to strike a blow against trade union organisation on its paperscan be defeated.
Westminster Press had become the last big employer to refuse to backdate the pay agreement as long ago as April.
One by one papers in its empire forced local managements to back down.
When strike action was called the management capitulated at Oxford and Slough and resolved to wreak vengeance on the smaller chapels at Acton, Hendon and Watford.
What swung the initiative away from the management was the determined fight that the small numbers of NUJ members put up and the massive support they received from the printers.
It was NGA FoC lan Cummings at Uxbridge who successfully fought for a decision not to cross the picket.
LAZY HELL. I SHOULD 2,000 British Leyland toolroom workers on Monday demonstrated their readiness to fight or increased wages when they took unofficial strike action in defiance of union officials.
There was talk before the strike of action for a possible £90 or evern £93 pay claimbut on the day, toolroom leader Roy Fraser resorted to almost incomprehensible demands.
And sooner than fight the company for the big wage increases his members want, Fraser has now raised the most reactionary of diversions-the prospect of withholding subscriptions from the union.
Fraser backed away during last year's strike from a frontal challenge to Leyland management and government pay policy.
His latest scheme shows that he still has no stomach or policy to conduct a serious fight.
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SOCIALIST PRESS France's military interventions in Africa provoked (if belatedly) a large counter demonstration in Paris last week.
Despite the habitual ambiguities of the French Stalinists occupation to leave murder took place.
At Cleon for several days, workers defied a court order to leave but last Saturday they were eventually removed at gunpoint by a force of thousands of riot police. Giscard EGA campaign supporters meeting last Wednesday passed a motion pledging indefinite strike action from the moment the running of the EGA is interfered with.
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