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national negotiating committee, had come to an agreement with British Shipbuilders to accept a deal which_involved an attack on trade boundaries and working conditions, with an inevitable loss of jobs.

involved a payment of £7, conditional on the full acceptance of flexibility, productivity proposals, which had not even been worked out when the SNC supported the deal, apart from saying it should be based on management's survival plan, which follows a long tradition of survival plans - a direct attack on jobs, wages and conditions.

The combine committee heard reports from yards who have had redundancy notices issued Fi ne Barclay Cale • shop stewards issued the following statement to the combine:

all trade union members British Shipbuilders. The manual workers and staff Barclay Cale Ltd have been forced to take strike action against compulsory redundancies and in defence of the Blackpool agreement.

"On 4 November 1983, the company gave notice to ten employees that they were surplus to requirements and would have to leave by 18 November 1983.

No offer of alternative employment elsewhere in British Shipbuilders was made.

"The Joint Shop Stewards Committee failed to persuade the company to defer these notices wielding police, went on the rampage to break up the picket lines at the Stockport Messenger dispute.

Shah prints his papers on Tuesdays, Wednesdays land Thursdays, and the INGA is calling for pickets Ufrom Tuesday morning to Friday morning. • The factory is on the Winwick Quay Trading LEstate in Warrington (Exit 19 off the M62, just after the Burtonwood Service Area).

until the end of December, to try and investigate the possibility of transfers.

"A mass meeting of all employees agreed that if the compulsory redundancy notices were not withdrawn by noon on 17 November 1983, the workforce would take this action.

"The Barclay Cale workforce has always supported the SNC, the Blackpool agreement and the Tynemouth resolution. We supported the action on behalf of the Robb Caledon workers. There are a further 56 redundancies in the pipeline and do not forget there are another 2,000 surplus in the industry at the year's end • according to British Shipbuilders.

"By helping us in our struggle you will be defending your own jobs and the Blackpool agreement. We need your support and we need it now."

Barclay Cale workers went back to work on Monday 28 November, with the understanding that the Clyde confed would attempt to get a meeting with management to fix up alternative work for the four still under threat. Six accepted the" redundancies.

If the issue isn't sorted out by Thursday 1 December, there will be a meeting of the Clyde stewContinued page 15 Four thousand pickets almost stopped the art-work getting into the print works, but police reinforcements, and pickets having to get home in time for work, meant the finished papers finally got out with little trouble.

By the time the vans came out at around 5 am the mass picket had been dispersed by police charges, which pulled out pickets and sent them through a gauntlet of police batons and boots, before they were thrown back into the crowd.

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Poor stewarding and a reluctance by many pickets to hold the line, split the picket in half. Police cleared a path for the van an hour before it was due to come • out by indiscriminate runs at the attacks the labour movement solidarity strike action. Workers

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