Wakes
Cnee againg at a mass moating attended by some 600 workera, the Aoton Eritieh Light Steol Pressing men and women reaffirmed their dotertination ta st. cut “until such time as a fain and honcursble sottlement ie apresé", Only one [04 wont up against a resolution putting thia position and eancthor throes abetcined, This despite terrible hardship which is boing ondured, Ths main problon facing: toc strikera ia the.number of rent demands, ecurt orders ond notioas of eviction tha: the strikers area receiving, Lost of the finanoial Support they ara resolving is used for thie purposes, Golidarity from cthar workera ie helping them in other waye toc, One worker, whose wife is oxzpooting her aecend ehfld, wea evieted, Ji appeal from the dispute committes produced threa effars of secomodation.
The aton strikers' morale ia high, all the more beesnse thore ore a number ¢f indications that the gamble that Hootes tock in Btorting production at Coventry,has failed tc come off, Thay have been forced to lay off again onny of those re-engaged at the umber Siddelay wrkswhilst at the ayton and Stoke worka the 1500 whe were restarted ara only working a-tea doy woek, The number of aats of ‘cross merbara' produced now is lesa than 200 as comapred with 3,000 nronally Troduced, Shop Stewards from the Eritiph Oxygen Company, who have blacked the Aacton factory, angry boomuse supplios are coming frum sleowherd ers considering blacking supplies to all Roctes factories,
4a explainec olsewhore, thie strike hap becene a trial of strength is of decisive importance, If you have net alrecdéy dene ao plesae send some lini of message of support to the strikers, sspooially from your organisation, The resolutions, finanea, ats should ba sent to F.Oola, 160, Saat Aoton fisno, London. 4, 3
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