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Over 700 workers from the Carrington's Petro-Chemicals in Cheshire went on a one-day strike on londay, liayl4th, to protest against the resumption of tests by the West. The same day 100 workers marched through Liverpool in support of the stoppage. For most of them it was an exspensive walk, meaning two or three pounds less in their pay packet. Iir. S. Howard, chairman of the Shop Stewards committee and also chairman of tle Carrington's Peace Committee, headed the march.
Among the unions represented were the National Federation of Building Trade Operatives, the 3.T.U., the Constructional Engineers! Union, the Heating and Domestic Engineers, the A.2.U., the Boilermakers, and the Plumbes T.U. delegates came from the Petro-Chemicals, Henderson's Ford and Crosby Baths building sites, from Gric Bemrose (printers), Automatic Telephones, I.C.I. (Runcorn) and British Railways. Both the stoppage and the demonstration were the immediate result of a meeting addressed by Pat Arrowsmith at the Petro- Chomicals site when a resoltuion from the floor had been overwhelmingly carried with only thirty men from a total of 800 voting against a token strike.
At the end of the march the demonstrators gathered at the Pier Head where a thousand nuclear disarmers had disturbed the pigeons only a couple of weeks before. The theme of this meeting was: “If the Unions united on this issue we just can't fail." "This is the first time we've demonstrated against nuclear tosts, but it won't be the last." said one of the speakers, a young building worker. "Pat Arrowsmith came and talked to us on the site and we were all terribly impressed by her arguments. There will be more demonstrations like this and there will be bigger ones."