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Fraser (centrel with toolroom workers during last vear's strike Alarmed at the prospect of indefinite strike action by 3,000 Leyland toolroom workers and the possibility of solidar i strikes by other skilled engineers, AUEW leaders on Sunday pulled momentarily back from immediate iate expulsion of 32 striking toolmakers at SU Carburettors.
But nobody should draw from this the mistaken conclusion that no further steps will be taken against the SU men.
Hugh Scanlon, Terry Duffy and fellow AUEW officials are biding their time, searching for some sign of a pull back by the toolmakers.
The retreat by the Executive-postponing the day of reckoning until the end of this week-is not a concession to the right of thet do retreat sin front of, the retreat in Saturday's unanimous vote by Leyland's unofficial toolroom committee to call all-out strike action as soon as the SU workers are expelled.
Bludgeon AUEW officials, who had hoped to be able to use the victimisation of the SU toolmakers as an example to help bludgeon down militant opposition to Phase 4 of wage controls, suddenly recognised that to do so would face much of orkers during last year's strike HOTO: John Sturrock, Re port and deputy convenor Alan Thornett, had won re-election in a shopfloor ballot as a result of their opposition to wage control, and their stand in defence of jobs and conditions in Leyland.
TGWU bureaucrats, recognising this as a threat to their policies of class collaboration have for nearly a year been conducting disciplinary hearings and "inquiries" into the Cowley 9. On Thursday the Oxford District Committee is to reconsider the whole case (see back page).
The issues involved in fighting these attacks by union officials atfect all sections of workers and all unions. The right to strike and the right to oppose reactionary union policies are at stake.
The toolroom committee has definite weaknesses of leadership and, has policies with which we disagree. But it is crucial that the SU toolmakers and the unofficial committee be