Workers Slam Tgwu Witch-hunt
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Cowley transport drivers register support for Support is clearly mounting within the TGWU for the nine members at British Leyland's Cowley Assembly Plant who are fighting victimisation at the hands of their own union officials.
Around 100 prominent union members-including plant convenors, branch officers; and shop stewards have now sponsored a call for conference of TGWU members on the issue, to be held in Oxford on April 8 'to discuss the best means of preventing a serious blow to basic trade union rights"
McCarthyism
This step is the result of increasing sections of the union becoming aware of the McCarthyite witch-hunt being conducted within Region 5 of the TGWU against the convenor, three deputy convenors, two shop stewards and three other members in the Cowley Assembly Plant.
They face recommended framed up convenors. sentences including expulsion from-the union in the case of deputy convenor . Alan Thornett, and banning from all union office for life in the case of fellow deputies Tom White and Frank Corti.
TRANSPORT HO OXFORD DISTRICT COF P213 R The 'crimes' they are accused of include "campaigning against" officials of the union, disagreeing with the TGWU leadership on wages policy, and walking out of a District Committee meet-