[•CONFERENCE RUNCORN and Widnes Tandar Ramanil in naaaninina…]
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•CONFERENCE RUNCORN and Widnes Tandar Ramanil in naaaninina ¡rades councu is vigamsug a public meeting for Monday evening, 5th, which will diseuss the possibility of sympathy strikes in the town to support the women workers int he seventh week of their strike against wage cuts and for union recognition.
The women are still determined to win. But their fight is being sabotaged by the leaders of their union, the NUTGW. The union head office has been contacting USDAW to make sure that sympathetic blacking of the products of Rulecan and the linked company Kingsland by USDAW members in cataiogue warehouses called off.
The USDAW members are willing to support the Rulecan women. But the mere threat of a writ under the Prior law has been sufficient to send the NUTCW leaders into a panic. They instructed the local official I labour to write requesting withdrawal of blacking, and when the Rulecan stewards appealed directly for continuation of blacking they intervened again via the USDAW official hierarchy.
The NUTGW leaders' attitude makes it almost impossible to keep up the blacking. But mass pickets are continuing at the Rulecan factory.
Phone NUTGW, 051 227 5665, for details and send messages of support and donations c/o NUTGW, Room 46, 62 Dale St., Liverpool 2.
THE fight for union recognition and reinstatement at Foyles Bookshop, London, is effectively over. The shopworkers' union USDAW has withdrawn the pickets.
Shop steward Siobhan Lanigan, and subsequently 15 other workers, were