Despite the confusion sown by the trade ion leaderships and the lack of any ight from the Labour 'lefts', some workers are beginning the fight back against Wilson's Tory policies. • At GEC Stafford 2,500 workers have already been out nearly seven weeks for E10 across the board. 'In spite of the new Healey plan for £6 a week, we're staying out for the £10', said Bill Hughes, deputy AUEW convenor. • 500 hourly-paid and white-collar workets at the light engineering Carr Fastner Company in Stapleford and Worksop walked out within days of the White Paper being published when management only offered them the £6 increase. • 1,500 Bristol and Avonmouth dockers are taking guerilla industrial action in claim. Sanctions have also been imposed by 2,300 Southampton dockers for more than a month in pursuit of a 'substantal cost or aving claim • On Tyneside a veritable strike wave is taking place. Fifteen thousand workers have been on strike or laid off in struggles for claims well over the prop• At Swan Hunter shipyards 5,000 ancillary workers, members of several unions, are engaged in joint action for the first time in pursuit of a claim in sunke acuon by cierica workers, membe • 4,000 manual workers at C A Parson's Heaton plant are holding out for their workers at their South Shields and Sunderland plants in retaliation against of APEX, who have rejected a revised offer of £6 to £7.50.
confronting not only their own employers but the Government as well. The establishment of broad based action committees to unite the struggles would me wu une recent bonermakers sett el claims and show how to defeat Healey's • If Tyneside shows the way, the clothing workers' pay negotiations show what the low paid can exect from the £6 and Garment Workers are claiming the £6 for their 120,000 members. They've October November December January From 1 August these workers will be February March May limit. The National Union of Tailors and needed.
Mick Gosling writes on 'the Prentice affair' red weekly 24 july 1975 ON social democracy — 3