Attack on May Day Scabs | IMGpapers 1968

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Workers at the Raleigh Industries factory in Nottingham are threatening to take action against two women who went in to work on May Day and refuse to give their day's wages to charity. The district secretary of unLon, the National Society of Metal Mechanics, which has 3,000 members among the 6,000 workforce at the plant, stresses that 'our members feel strongly about this and it could escalate into a full-scale strike.

Similar action over May Day scabbing has already been taken by members of NATSOPA and the NGA who work on the Yorkshire Evening Press They are demanding the removal of cards from two men who continued to work, as well as tbe sacking of an AUEW supervisor who not only worked against union instruc tions but broke the printers closed shop and crossed their picket lines to do their work. The paper, one of the most reactionary in the country, failed to appear last week as a result of this action, Such actionsshow the determation of those who struck on May Day and Leir understanding of the need to present a united face to the ruling class whatever the differences and failures within the movement.

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