Support for GEC pay fight

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off by their action.

The storemen's claim of £2.88 a week backdated to January 1977 is for parity with other storemen within the plant.

Picketing of the stores has led to the lay off of over 1,000 workers, 100 of whom responded by occupying the Personnel Office in solidarity with those on strike.

Computer room

The occupation has now been extended to the Computer Room. Last r veek the ASTMS branch mer iting voted to give £200 to the strike fund.

Attempts to dispute through the intervention of ACAS failed last Tuesday when the talks broke down and a mass meeting of the storemen last Thursday voted to continue the action.

Response The response from other workers at the factory shows the feeling on wages building up inside GEC.

Low pay in the face of a mounting cost of living have laid the basis for a real fight to defend and regain living standards. ' Workers supporting the storemen should extend that support by coming out alongside them on their own claims.

This demand should be raised on the JSSC which has voted full support to the storemen.

Donations to support

those involved in the dispute should be sent to the JSSC, GEC Telecommunications Ltd. Telephone Works, Stoke, Coventry.

Henry Frolish, former

finance officer of the National Union of Agricultural Workers, gambled away £24,000 of the union's funds. He was jailed at the Old Bailey for four years after admitting embezzling £24,000.

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PRESS Miller (right) with Carter men Horvitz (left) and Marshall

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