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spoke to Jim Denham CABs 1 and 2.

When that meeting occurred, the Works Committee resolution for return to work was carried. although feeling was very strong, and there was a small minority who seemed determined to stay out.

However, we made it clear that we had only suspended our strike and warned BL, 'Any more police raids on our homes, and we strike again.?

Jack Adams later told the local press, We had a great deal of difficulty getting the men to agree to our recommendations to go back to work. They insisted on adding a rider that if what they see as indiscriminate searches continue, then they will take action, and the next time they'll stop out."

We also won one very significant victory. The Company has now agreed that all Longbridge workers will have access to their records in the Personnel Department. Of course we all know that the company will keep any information that they don't want us to see on separate records, but it is still a very worthwhile propaganda victory and a good basis for a broader fight for the opening of the all company's secret files and books." to go back and demanded that the rest of the factory come out in their support. In the afternoon, 90% of the factory did this - all apart from the Maestro lines and the Rover final line, led by two of Roche's cronies.

The mass meeting was so late in the day that it was adjourned until the Monday morning.

On Monday, Buckle argued strongly against strike action. He didn't mention the Paint Shop once even though the meeting had been called to support them. He refused to allow any questions.

The vote was close with a lot of abstentions, and the leadership declared it carried for a return to work. THE common factor in the current wave of strikes in the car industry is a revolt against the attempts by management to assert and increase its authority on the basis of the slump and the recent defeats for the unions in the industry.

At the Ford Halewood assembly plant on Mersey side, 4,500 workers are out, demanding the reinstatement of Paul Kelly.

Paul Kelly was sacked for alleged vandalism. As he himself points out, "If the company is allowed to get away with sacking me, it could be anyone else tomorrow or next week."

The Halewood body plant workers have been laid off because of the assembly plant dispute. But during the lay-off Ford have come forward with plans to abolish demarcation and increase work flexibility - haviny the same workers doing both maintenance and production work - and ti seek 1,300 redundancies.

A body plant mass meeting has voted to strike against these plans.

Meanwhile the conciusion of factory votes in Vauxhall may show a majority against lifting the ban on imports of the new S-car. While the focus on stopping imports can only harm the necessary unity between workers in different countries where GM [the parent company of Vauxhall] has factories, the voting clearly shows increased confidence and readiness to fight.

How much help are th ional union leaders?

None from AUEW president Terry Duffy for sure. Last Saturda! he told the press that "it was sad that now the car companies wer producing world-beating models the strikes should begin again".

And he proposed thi ainst strikes.

This would enable the companies to victimise, to change manning and conditions, and to impose rbitrary speed-up without an immediati comeback from the workers.

The Science column got squeezed out this week in the competition. Sorry! It'll be back week as usual.

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