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BRI A mass picket of several hundred workers at the gates of the Trico-Folberth windscreen wiper factory in West solid strike action by 500 women workers demanding equal pay.

The meeting which followed was attended by nearly all of the strikers and showed a stubborn refusal to concede anything to the company or to appear before the fraudulent 'Equal Pay' Tribunals set up under the legislation.

At. the same time it became clear from the announcements at the meeting that support has continued to grow from union bodies all over the country with donations and messages of Despite such support it is clear there are a number of gaps in the blacking action within the motor industry, and fresh appeals were 6 issues. 12 lesues 24 inUIER EUROPE 6 basies. 12 issues 24 insures TE E WORLD I would like to take out Press. I world like i NAME ....

ADDRESS. made to car workers to black both Trico products themselves - and where possible, those products used in place of Trico windscreen wipers.

While local leaders put on a bold front, denouncing the Tribunals and appearing to rally support, it now emerges that the strikers are receiving only £9 per week strike pay, dependent on outside donations for anything more. ..Yet the AUEW district officials have made only the most tentative moves to win financial support or ensure the spread of the blacking action.

• The strike is a crucial one both for the equal pay fight and the whole struggle to defend wages and conditions in the motor and components industry.

But the building of a principled political leadership prepared boldly to call on the united strength of the workers' movement for support must be central in such struggles.

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We say that when it comes to the struggle of the oppressed masses throughout the world the labour movement has a duty to intervene to the maximum on the side of those fighting exploitation.

This is why the question of arms supplies takes on such importance. The repression in South Africa has traditionally been carried out with Britishto oppose apartheid, and trade union leaders like Jones who speak against the Vorster regime now have the commitment to the African working class.

Any retreat by them from this fight to materially aid the struggle for. black liberation will only strengthen white racist reaction.

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