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If the Red Weekly appears biassed Coventry at a standstill Road, London had a one hour witched ments continue to gather momen Yesterday white collar workers at Standard Triumph Coventry voted for all our strike action. The main assembly plant at Canley has now been shut down and several thousand production workers The GEC strike for an open-ended theshold agreement which began last week remains solid with GEC plants in Workers at the Coricy Service Station on the M6 Jink between Birmingham and Centry are also taking sirike action over tiresholds. The two hundred workers are picketting the station which The workets-couployed by Trust House Force-are aimine to soresd lu strike right along the motorway growiop resistance amongst its work force.
part of the BLMC group have now been Although the 70 squatters- Inchiding ten children and four pregnant women-were pied on the rainscaked streets. One finally evicted, their struggle and thoir campaign lisa led to growing support for heir hattle against Westminster. Conneil.
Westminster Trades Council is now supporting their fight and a week later the squarters took over eight other WestThe six blocks of nals bad been defended by heary harricades Missites of garhage, oil, urine, cement water jets were also used. Water-cocks in the road wor cemented up to stop bailiffs cutting water oft. Reprintibves of the Trades Cicincil and the Tenants' Associacion formed part of the anti-eviction squad.
It took the one hour for the police and bailifle to enter every hlock. It was a further to hours before they had tossed out all the squatters and their belongings.
Rush-hout crowds wete able to see the squats, FORDS PICKETS GO ON TRIAL Four Ford workers are due to be tried on I July. They we charged with obstruction and threatening behaviour. The charges arise out of the strike aguinst the seizure of AUEW funds by de NIRC.
The arrests were made by the Special Patrol Group who swooped on the Body Ironically, the over-zealous police acciden tally knocked off a scab going into work.
It was clear that the arrests were planned with the aim of ictimidating tho Ford BUSIOns Be Da Bad to DIC Ford TGWU 667 branch and Harold Hill AUEW branch, recogusing this as an attack on the right to picket and calling support. NUFTO Hall, Jockeys Fields, London W. C. 1. (off Theobalds Road, - Origins of the crisis in Ireland (speaker Richard Boam)
•Tha current situation in Ireland, the meaning of self-determination, can & Northern Ireland State be democratic speaker Gery Lawess) - The labour movement in the South of Ireland: the national question and the econa mic and political struggle in the South (speaker Paddy Pronderville)
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