FROM SELL-OUT TO SCABBING | IMGpapers 1968

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On 21 March a special inquiry by the Region 10 Committee of the T.&G.W.U. came out in support of the claim that Jean Jepson was 'unjustifiably dismissed" and resolved that she should be reinstated. However, no mention was made of official action. And to back up his committee's decision, regional secretary Dave Shenton has rotused to do more than endeavour to persuade the company to reinstate that the blacking would be extended into the car industry, for which Armstrong's makes shock-absorbers and other components, secretary Shenton wrote around the regions instructing them to give no support to the Jepson strike.

As reported in Red Weekty a fortnight ago, members of the 5/55 T.&G. W.U. branch at British Leyland's Cowley plant have instituted a black Humberside.

The Defence Committee is also appealing to T.&G.W.U. branches locally and nationally to condemn the scandalous behaviour of the Region 10 officials and demand official strike action Now which are still urgently needed, should be sent to: Strike Committee, 39 St Hilda's Street, Bridlington, E. Yorks, Orders for a pamphlet now aratable on the dispute should be sent to Defence Committee, 7 Parkaide Close, Park Ave., Hull.

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over 2,000 students, the militant