WITHIN the past few days, picketing the steel plant in Carby has become redundant. Members Engineering Union employed at the plant were the last to join the strike, at the beginning of this week, and now nothing moves in or out.
The main work of ine committee despatching pickels. On Monday, for example, couple of car-loads went off to the docks at King's Lynn, where doekers have agreed that if a 24-hour picket is maintained steel will gates. Private steel st on on are a major target,. and pickets from Corby went to John Lee in Grantham, Lines, assistance was requested by women strikers. Only six lorries managed to leave the plant, instead of the usual 40.
'Morale has improved deal,' says Alisdair Sinclair, an ISTC long dispute.
strike flying pass Monday La great national day of action against the cuts until 14 May.
ted: "A day of action on 14 May will not help Labour councils which are fighting the cuts. The TUC should be leading the Trade unionists from other parts of the country have decided that they cannot wait for the TUC to act. The Manchester engineering shop stewards has called for a day of action against the cuts and unemployment on 18 February. So, too, Council. Tony Robinson will be speaking at a raily to be held on the day of action.
Trade unions and Labour Party branches throughout should be pulling out the the strike résolutions should be flooding in to the TUC demanding that they extend this action.
THE PANTOMIME season started a bit late in' Belfast, but opening week Atkins' "constitutional conference it is now under full swing.
AS curtain raiser conference, UH joked that the British Army in the trained and most dedicated soldiers of any Army in the world. Next day the article appeared Daily Telegraph. Here it is, believe it or not, without a word changed:
*The Army ambush in Ulster on New Year's Eve, in which an officer and young soldier were shot dead by their own comrades, was carried out "properly and very-effectively" the Humphrey the Januäry Atkins the best in the flag the same attitude. involved cheerful Unionist Party which is boycotting the conference. Accordingly it was a bit cheeky of him to complain that the Vol the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth had adopted Rude gestures Meanwhile inside the conference itself an SDLP delegation member (sic) walked into the discussions with Perhaps this was in a second protest Harold McCusker who reported that a 'rude gesture' had been made at him from a window in the conference But then down to business and the David Wyatt, one of Atkins' officials, that no agenda had been fixed for the