in was disappearing into a bank account that we didn't know of; and Barclay's Bank, who had given overdraft facilities of £1.2 million were getting a little concerned about their investment... We now know that there was something crooked about the deal right from the start.
On Wednesday, 10 July, the receiver was brought in at IPD after lay-offs and threats of redundancies. On Friday morning he made his proposals - 750 sacked now, the remaining 400 to be phased out. Archie Breden explaine tion: At the mass decided there and then that the mandate would be 1200 jobs or nothing. The decision was taken to throw the receiver off site.
The gates were welded up to ers were put out to workers at Heathrow airport, dockers and transport workers.
LABOUR GOVERNMENT However, the stewards are boping for a quicker solution this time through the intervention of the the dole.
te workers reacting it was time. THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING CORPORATION (IPC) who produce the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, and a host of weekly rags like Woman's Realm, are quietly attempting to kick nearly 3,000 workers onto They are using a so-called "demarcation dispule at their Odhams plant in Walford as an excuse to try and transfer the printing of several of their best selling magazines to plants in other countries. 250 workers, members of the National Graphical Association, have already been dismissed and notices are due to go out to another 2,800 workers in a few days"
IPC bave made a 'peace offer' to save the plant to the NGA which, in cifect, means the complete surrender WOrkErs. of the union's position at that plant and which they know the union will burn down. IPC are trying to kill two birds with one stone to have some of their printing done overseas where labour is cheaper and not so troublesome and sell up their plant for u handsome return on the expanding property market on the out skirts of London - and put the whole manoeuvre down to the unreasonableness of the unsons, INTERNATIONAL ARENA The official union leadership i making a move on the international arena in mespons. John Bonfield, general secretary of the NGA, hus alerted printers in Germany and Italy not to accept work trans ferred from Britain, through the International Graphical Federation of which he is president. The NGA executive is also lo consider whether lo call upon its members in otber IPC plants in Britain to lake action in support of the Warford Against such an international plant as IPC militant action on both a national and international scale will he necessary.
But there will be problems The whoke big financial problems, witness the rece mores by the Beaverbrook empire to squeeze another ELO million out of its shareholders and the selling up of the Scotrish Daily Express. There 1s no doubt that IPC, which employs about 40,000 people in Britain alone, 15 em barking upon a series of rutionalisation te rescue its profitahilits.
Any action taken by the warker should be linked to the demand for the nationalisation of the whole /PC empire The state should bu compelled to take over all IPC operations - not just le unprofitahle ones - and guarantee the jobs of every PC worker.
When approached by three local M's about the situation at Ohams Michael Foot claimed to be aware of the seriousess of the sitcation' Clearly only massie trude union actioe will force the Labour Government to take over IPC this is what workers throughout the IPC combine should be cantpaigning for.
Red Weekly 25 July 1974. Fag
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prevent any of the t2.5 million worth of plant being shifted out and feel-