Evans Lifts: stop the oxygen!
Socialist Organiser1981 1981-11-26Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 15 →
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•IF WE stop the oxygen, then it will have been worth it' , said one of the women pickets at Evans Lifts, Leicester, last Monday.
The 68 TASS members at the factory, part of the American multinational Otis since the takeover on October 24, have taken the decision to begin 24 hour picketing.
AUEW members are still working on the shop floor, but work is coming to a standstill, according to the TASS office committee. A delegation has been to the British Oxygen Company depot at Rotherham in an attempt to stop the supplies at source. Further pro rata for other grades. aroder delegations to other suppliers have been suggested.
However, deliveries are still getting through, and can only be stopped by effective picketing.
If the decision by the locked-out TASS members to stick it out until they are reinstated is to have any meaning at all, then the local labour movement, employed and unemployed, should be encouraged to join the picket and to raise the issue in their own organisations.
Messages/money:
B.Dixon, 42 Elmfield Ave, Birstall, Leicester.
STEVE AKERS Out of the 270 men at