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A mass meeting attended by 350 of the 400 women strikers at the Trico Folberth factory ins North London last week rejected a new management offer which is still way below their demand for equal pay.
This now takes the strike into its eighteenth week, making it a crucia. test ot trade union strength as well as a major instance of the fight for equal pay.
NO CONCESSIONS The Company has now been completely shut down for a fortnight, but has refused to make any real concessions.
But this fight is being sabotaged by the full time officials even within the AUEW which is in formal terms giving official support.
The joint policy statement by Scanlon and Jones, published in the Leyland Mirror announces that even justified disputes within Leyland are to be outlawed in the interests of continuous production.
Yet since this is the case, the long standing call by AUEW officials in Southall for the blacking of Trico windscreen wipers, followed up a fortnight ago by a call "for the blacking of all windscreen wipers, must be a cynical deception of Trico workers.
Scanlon Trico manufactures 90% of British wipers, supplying Leyland and Chrysler. The imposition of a black on these products would therefore bring the Leyland lines to a standstill, and severely disrupt production in Chrysler.
Nothing of the sort has happened, of course, because in those factories, the AUEW officials see it as their job to maintain and maximise production in the interests of "viability" (ie. profits).
So all that has emerged has been occasional financial donations to the Trico strike fund while "blacked' windscreen wipers are