T'70 STRIKES IN NOTTINGHAM by a Nottingham correspondent
For 12 days now, 250 workers at 221well, Nottingham, factory of Spray and Durgass have beon on strike to enforce a wage agreement concluded last April. This agreoment should have come into effect on the first pay day this year, The latest development in the dispute, at time of writing, is a threat by the managment to sack all the strikers unless they report for duty, at pre~agreemont rate of pay, on Wednesday morning, January 22nd. Jack Charlesworth, secretary of the Nottingham district of the men's union, the Hosiery Finishers! Association, replied: “We will not be intimidated," The union plans a demonstration on Sunday, January 26th, starting at 10,30 at the Forest, to be followed by a march into the centre of Nottingham. 111 trade unionists and others who support the strikers are being asked to take part. The union has also produced a special leaflet giving its case,
The well-known cycle factory of Raleigh Industries, Nottingham, now part of the Tube Investments group, is hit by a strike of 300 craftsmen who are members of the A.8.U.. The craftsmon, mostly members of the toolroom staff, are striking in protest against the managonont déclaring 25 mombers of the A.U.U. radundant. They are determined to impose their union's policy of work-sharing instead of sackings,. Tho strike is officially backed’ the local district committee of the A.#.U. which is considering establishing a striko fundy based on a levy of moembors, Recent moves in the strike include the calling out, by the mass meoting, of the millwrights and the rejection by the men of an offer to find the 25 alternativo employment with other firms, Tho lattor was described as ludicrous by Fred Wilkins, district secretary of the ADU, as it would involve very big reductions in wagese