The 130 iron working trades apprentices employed by Fairfields (Glasgow), who have been on strike now for almost three weeks, are prepared to stay out indefinitely, it was stated on Monday by Mr. Pat Kelly, district delegate for the Boilermakers' Society after a mass meeting. Financial support, he said, had come from the journeymen in the yard and further support was expected from the other yards in the district. A delegation of seven apprentices is to be taken by Mr. Kelly to the Clyde District Committee of te Boilermakers' Society to ask them to endorse their action, On Friday the delegation will lobby Mr. Iain M. Stewart, Chairman, of Fairfields, before he addresses a mass meeting of the firm's workers in a local cinema, They will ask him to find a basis for a return to work. The apprentices are on strike because they claim they should have been included in a productivity agreement affecting iron . working tradesmen in the yard which gave them an increase of ls 1d an hour.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 6, No. 17, c. 11 November 1966
Striking Apprentices to Stay Out
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