All Out to Win Confed Claim

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NATSOPA chapel members on The Times have thrown out the agreement between their. officials and management.

And the corner they. are was essential.

During the nine month lock-out management have installed and programmed computers which they are demanding NATSOPA members work-with job loss built into the programming.

The Clerical chapel, faced with this has rejected the proposal.

Machine room workers also rejected the formula.

NATSOPA chapels have an agreement that none of them-there are 20 chapels involved-will go back unless all are satisfied.

The need for NATSOPA members is now to follow through rejection of the sell out accepted by their official leaders with a campaign for a new leadership to represent their interests.

Embarassed and frightened by the massive and growing response for each of their one-day natinnal etrikes the Confer leadership has attempted to wear down the militancy of engineering workers by calling not an all-out strike, but simply for an endless series of twn dav stonnanes While this strategy is unlikely to break the intransigent stance of the vicious Engineering Employers Federation, its complete lack of perspective for a serious fight holds dangers as media attempts to create scabbing "back to work" moves are growing in intensity.

2 million The reality of course is that not only did nearly two million workers follow Monday's strike call. but in manv instances WHEN I WAS AT RUSKIN I LEARNED DEFEND HOW TO DEAL WITH PROBLEMS LIKE JOBS TASTER O our Now!

where • handfuls of scabs have defied the one-day strike call they have been the cause of continuing stoppages and protests by workers who subseauentlv refused to work with them.

Bradford demand The two-day stoppages will now create many of the problems of leadership posed by an indefinite stoppage-but without the industrial impact.

The growing mood for all-out action was reflected in a recent meeting of 300 Confed stewards in Bradford, where a demand for the Confed to call an all-out strike on the claim was carried with only one cote against.

And Birmingham on Monday saw a 1,200 strong demonstration and mass meeting of strikers in Digbeth Hall give massive support to those attempting to carry a resolution for all nut action TAS YOULL SEE, WEVE GOT EVERYTHING UNDER!

CONTROL: THE ENGINEERS ARE TID DOLN TO TOKEN STRIKES, THERE IS NOTHING GOING ON AGAINST THE CUTS, AND THERE SHOULD BE NO PROBLEMS ON THE JOBS FRONT...

The mood of the meeting swung dramatically. It began with standing ovations for official Confed speakers while those WSL members and supporters who heckled demanding all-out strikes were in a small minority..

But speakers from the floor began calling for all out action. And when Alan Thornett, deputy convenor of BL's Cowley Assembly Plant called for a motion to be passed demanding the Confed call an all-out strike, the mood shifted rapidly in favour of the militants.

The platform however refused to accept such a proposal as an amendment, ano closed the meeting without putting it to a vote.

Engineering union branches and stewards' committees must step up the fight to turn the token two day actions into all-out indefinite strike action to win the full £80/35 hour week claim CoNFED CLAIM NOW!

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Times sell-out rejected

The Birmingham mass meeting AAAAAAGGHH!!)