Despite a strike ultimatum from 2,300 workers in South Derbyshire and Leicestershire threatening to affect half Britain's salt glaze ware industry, the employers refused on 8th June, to meet union officials to discuss a claim for a third week's annual holiday. They claimed that they did so as a "matter of principle." Dick Coates, district Organiser of the TGWU said that a one-day strike scheduled for June 18th would go on unless the employers climbed down, "We gave them the ultimatum some time azo but they have refused to discuss the claim," he added,
The WeekThe Week Vol. 1, No. 24, 11 June 1964
Salt Glaze Industry May Have One-day Strike
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