statement by the Joint Sites Committee
on Dispute arose because three Steelfixers were sacked, while the whole a ail a amkobeel e due to @ bonus dispute. Normal working was eee on the instructions of the N.F.2B.T.0. Executive, on the 3rd November 1966, to allow the Dispute to be resolved. Even while Trade Union officials - — representatives were in negotiations Myton Management were preparing or ni dismissal of all workers the next day. This is what caused the Myton _— that has lasted 11 months. Myton's have sacked every worker on the site, en insisted that work could only be resumed if the Shop Stewards and a. were kept outside the gate, The scandal is that the N.F.B.T.0. oventicnte with these arrogant demands. But the workers refused to betray their stewards and continued to be Locked Out. On Sunley's Site, the management on 24th October, 1966, without consultation tore up a Bonus Agreement which had — in operation on the site for 12 months, Before the Dispute at a meeting o Sir Cecil Mant and Mr. Chadwick of the Ministry of Works, 3 Sunley bosses and J. Mills - President of N.F.B.T.0., Mills, ASW. Executive Council member, was alleged to have advised sacking the Works Committee. The Court refuses to state whether it was true or not. We wonder why? The above were the real:"causes and circumstances of the disputes". The alleged "disruption, and illegitimate and mischievous activity" was the work, not of the Stewards or the Joint Sites Committee, but of the employers, Ministry of Works and right wing Trade Union Officials. Since when has the right of workers to Work-to-Rule become a crime?..... Cameron accuses Myton Federation Stewards, Lou Lewis and the London Building Workers Joint Sites ; Committee of actions "to further by illegitimate means" the Committee's policy of fighting the Government's Incomes standstill. Since when has opposition to wage freeze, unemployment and anti-trade union legislation become illegal?..e. Any worker will understand that 450 men on Myton's and Sunley's labourers and tradesmen, ..... would never have struggled for 11 months ..... unless they had the deepest sense of grievance, belief in the justice of their struggle and in the honesty of their Stewards. Cameron's recommendations are an unprecedented threat to all workers. He wants:- 1. Myton's Site re-opened without the Shop Stewards. 2. Sunley's re-opened with the Stewards banned from holding office on the site, 3. Appointment - not election of Shop. Stewards on both Sites, 4. The Unions to take "measures of appropriate severity" and withdraw creden-
tials from any Steward who leads a struggle against the employers. 5e Destruction of the Joint Sites Committee with a stop on financial support
from the workers, 6. Major changes in the Working Rule Agreement to hamstring the workers and
help the employers. All workers must condemn this vicious report. Send: your views to Gunter and Union Executives. We call on all Building workers and trade unionists to stand by any action by Myton & Sunley workers to defend their Shop Stewards, and the Joint Sites Committee pledges its full support for any action taken.