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agreement to meet factory health and safety representatives.

On Thursday the workers decided to call off action on the transfer of labour, but to increase a partial overtime ban to a full one.

The management of the factory knew the best place to seek help-and complained to the NATSOPA Strike Branch secretary, Ricky Sambridge, said that the overtime ban broke a union rule on trade movements (!) and threatened the chapel committee with disciplinary action by their branch committee.

When •this was announced on Friday evening, the chapel voted unanimously for a strike on the following Monday to show that they would not be intimidated by either management or union Evidence i! i mounting to suggest that the major press witch-hunt launched recently against alleged 'militants' in Winsford, Cheshire, is part of a management offensive. of Bachas Ltd., hit the headt lines and prime TV time by his declaration that he was operating a blacklist against any worker who had been previously employed at the local Metal Box or International Computers factories.

But workers have long suspected that a blacklisting system • operates against known militants in the town and that for Prest to reveal his position openly merely confirms their view.

The witch-hunt however seems an important part of a crackdown throughout the engineering industry in (O THIS IS THE MACHINERY OLD JACK PASSED ON including management at Metal Box and ICL-engage. in a concerted drive for speed-up.

Only days before Prest's outburst four workers at Bauras were sacked for not! reaching management-dictated levels of productivity.

Suspiciously, the sackings took place a mere four hours after AUEW official Alf Waddington had been seen leaving • Prest's office in the plant.

On the same day as these sackings management at the International Paper Company attempted to sack a night shift shop steward.

An immediate strike in, his support secured reinstatement the following morning.

Winsford workers will be watching closely to see how far local employers' support for Prest's stand is carried into attacks on their own shop floor workforce, and the role played in these attacks by union officials.

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SOCIALIST SOCIALIST PRESS 51% of the people in Britain think that the army should be withdrawn from the North of Ireland and the Irish people allowed to work out their own fate.

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But potentially more damaging to British imperialism

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