Sell-out bid in Yorks ick-out

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Ten days after the Garners strike committee lobbied the TGWU London Regional Comlines where a fight to mobilise the ship.

An important delegation from Murphy's Kentish is put up memberfight Management and local TGWU officials have engineered a return to work at Hepworth Iron Company under conditions where the convenor Barry Almond remains sacked and the union very much weakened.

The shop stewards committee had met on the Thursday discuss proposals to put to a mass meeting on Friday morning.

. Management had made sure that all those who had scabbed on the strike prior to it being made official were informed by letter of the meeting, whereas those directly involved were not informed.

Between the two meetings Pearson, the personnel officer contacted the TGWU Regional officer and informed him that Brother Almond would be prosecuted for trespass if he attempted to attend the meeting, and was under no circumstances to be reinstated.

This was never discussed as a condition at the stewards' meeting but on the Friday morning TGWU officials including the Regional TGWU Group Secretary. confirmed that the meeting would go ahead and that they would recommend acceptance of the terms demanded by management.

At this point the majority of the sacked men decided not to attend the meeting, in defence of their convenor,. but eventually went along on the basis of possibly swinging the vote in their favour.

The decision was then taken to return to work.

However there still remains a very strong feeling among sections of the workers and the possibility of continuing the picket is being discussed.

The treacherous role played by the local TGWU officials provides yet another example of the need to build an alternative leadership within the TGWU if even the most basic of rights is to be defended.

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