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......iel no Socialist Challenge 10 July 1980 Page 2 more General Drain, and rights Secretary Geoffrey national executive member Tony Ayland have pledged their support for the campaign in defence of the Czech Marxist Petr Uhl and other jailed civil campaigners NALGO has already protested officially to the Czechoslovak embassy over the jailing of the Charter 77 leaders last October. A resolution allowed through the North West and North Wales District Council of the union last December: The union's journal, Public Services has carried an article explaining the case of the role of than 63 delegates signed an appeal to the Czechoslovak testing against Petr Uhl's conditions of imprisonment and demanding that a socialist lawyer from this country be peal was NEC member Tony Ayland, over the last three years in taking up the cases of victimised Polish workers and the savage repression of Romanian miners in the Jiu valley after a chairperson Peter Steele, Derby city Glamorgan Davies, played an important role Danny secrelary movement. branch ghai Derson sece Cry pland branch secretary Chichester branch secretary Bob Hazell, GLC branch chairperson John Plant, Harlow TUC secretary Purton, Aberdeen branch Hugh Robertson, and the Southwark branch chairperson.
The Charter 77 Defence Committee is hoping that this initiative by •NALGO leaders will be followed up by similar moves in other unions to produce a flood of protest from the length and breadth of the labour
During the years of boom the population of Coventry doubled. Workers were recruited for jobs in the city from Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and later from the West Indies and South Asia.
The car industry and associated engineering flourished in Coventry. With a labour shortage and a strong shop stewards organisation since the First World War, workers were able to gain considerable control over their conditions of employment.
The Coventry Toolroom Agree ment, signed 1941 regulated the wages of engineering workers in the workers' favour. A schedule of rates was produced and shop stewards negotiated comparability on the basis of the bestpaying plants in town.
9000 8000 5000 5000 Numbers 4000 3000 effectively 2000 semi-skilled 1000 Men:
women Years 1974 1975 UNEMPLOYMENT IN COVENTRY.- ON THE 1976 1977 INCREASE AGAIN 1978 1979 its cash limits.
Because based on passed 1980 Evicted tion is shrinking and getting older Hospital facilities that were adequate for a population of healthy young people are not so adequate for unemployed, older workers, on poor diets living in substandard conditions. Yet the local health authority is being forced to declare cuts to keep within Coventry's industry is semi-skilled Labour, most young people could expect an apprenticeship followed by reasonable work. Not anymore. A recent survey showed that a third of fifth form school leavers last year were still without permanent employment a month ago Only one in three of those. who the construction industry's exam will find apprenticeships with Coventry builders.
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Other signatories include Liver- Burgess, Bury branch secretary Brian