[WOMEN at Kigass, Leamington Spa, are in the…]
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WOMEN at Kigass, Leamington Spa, are in the sixth week of their fight for union recognition.
Kigass boss Arthur Wardman, having offered an £8 per week rise to scab workers (boosting their wages to the fantastic sum of around 444 per week!), nas now written to the strikers oftering them the same if they return to work without the This attempt to undermine the strike has brought only one woman back to work. Wardman has been forced to agree to meet union officials as the strike begins to bite. ACTION Although the dispute has been made official by the AUEW, the women have even now not received any strike pay. The struggle apparently 'inconveniently coincided? with the AUEW national committee.
Support has been forthcoming, however, from local workers at AP, Ford, Lucas, Rolls_ Royce, and from local Labour Party branches.
March
Mass pickets are being held every Saturday, at Warwick from 4.30 and subsequently at the Leamington factory. And the women have called a march through Leamington on Saturday 15th, assembling I0am at the Pump Rooms to march through the town to the factory.
Join the march, and send donations to the strike committee c/o J.Patsone, 13 South Terrace, Whitnash, Leamington Spa, Warks.
JOHN HARRIS by Jim Farnham