The fight against redundancy by 1750 workers at Triumph Motor Cycles is hotting up. Fifteen hundred production workers have been laid off after refusing to give up the 2,500 completed bikes locked in the factory. They have also refused to allow senior Norton Villiers Triumph (N'VT) managementinto the plant. The day after the lay-offs were announced, delegations were sent from the occupied factory to every large work-place in Coventry. A 4,000 strong demonstration in solidarity with Triumph had previously been widely supported by the Coventry labour movement. The Triumph Shop Stewards Committee is now circulating a letter to all the men addressed to their wives. The letter from the wife of a Triumph worker' calls for the setting up of a 'wives committee', to involve the wives in the struggle, organise Social Security, and help in picketing.
The plan to set up a workers co-operative to take over the factory now seems to be in question. On his return from America, where he investigated the possibility of setting up a marketing network for selling bikes produced in the factory, Leslie Huckfield, MP for Nuneaton, refused to comment on the viability of the scheme.
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Fed Weekly 26 October 1973 Page 2
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