Adwest: Tgwu Accepts Tory Act
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In a move aimed at breaking the long-running strike at Reading's Adwest engineering factory, it was last week yet again refused official backing from the TGWU.
At a meeting organised under pressure from the strikers by the union's national official Larry Smith, they called on Regional Secretary Ashman to declare official support, a step which would immeasurably improve their chances of winning their struggle against victimisation.
Lame excuses Instead they got only a letter from Ashman reiterating the union's lame excuse about 'financial irregularities' making support impossible.
y Morning Litho Printers Ltd., Li irkers Socialist League. Prior's law from the TUC rostrum (and TGWU leader Moss Evans' own pre-Congress threat to defy it) should be looked at in the light of the bureaucracy's actual attitude in cases where the Act is being imposed.
ADWEST STRIKE
Donations to the Adwest Strike Fund are urgently needed and should be made payable to:
J. Dhoot, c/o Danny Broderick, 46, Berkley Rd., Reading, Berks.
The strikers planned recall mass picket later this month could therefore more appropriately be held outside the doors of Transport House than the gates of the Adwest factory. Evans