Massey Str 4o+
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1,000 assembly worke rs at Massey Ferguson voted unanimously to return to work after management had conceded their demands.
The dispute was sparked off by the company's action in taking 136 workers off the clock for alleged siow working. Over 1,000 assembly workers struck in sympathy and for a time the factory was occupied unti the company got a court order directing the strikers to quit.
Support was growing for the strikers (a meeting of over 100 representing several factories in Coventry met recently to discuss ways of developing support) when the company backed down and agreed to take issues through procedure, up to national level, in future instead of taking men off the clock.
In addition the company agreed to pay the strikers their full three-day holiday pay.
The fight will now be around the continued attempts by management to push up the production targets to 48 tractors a day. teachers inhs. conditions and. living standards was forthcoming from the conference last weekend of the 'Socialist Teachers Alliance* masterminded by the International Marxist Group.
Discussion centred on endless "tactical' "initiatives" • Whereas a veneer of revolutionary-sounding demands was added through a string of amendments to the IMG's main resolution, these were negated by attaching the whole resolution to support for the bankrupt Stalinist-led "initiatives" centring