Support grows for T Lucas | IMGpapers 1980

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WORKERS at the rusk mill of the T Lucas factory near Bristol, who occupied the mill to prevent 53 redundancies on 5 February, have not been left to fight alone. A mass meeting of the rest of the 250-strong workforce at the site voted on the following Monday for an all out strike.

Now the strike committee is campaigning for broader support, starting with a rally on 19 February which will be addressed by Tony Benn MP for Bristol South East, Phil Penning of the Laurence Scott strikers present v fighting closure in ManChester. and Colwyn Jones, the Lucas conventor.

Jim Walker, a member of the strike committee, told Socialist Challenge that TAP about movement was already showing a willing response to neur appeals.

'Money has been labour movement Last night we collected over £100 from the City buses branch.

'The CPSA (civil servants union), the Labour Party. the Socialist Workers Party and the Marxist Group have all scut us Cast.

'We have been asked to address labour movement bodies throughout Bristol and Avon, and we've even had money retired Lucas worker'.

They have no hesita. tion in asking for sup•ecause as Howard Cook from the committee ex+ LUCA Part of mass Lucas meeting plained: 'We have supported the recent fights against redundancies at Laurence Scott and Staffa's.

'We've thought of it future. Whope that we investing the will get the same type of support. Then we can get back to normal and start investing again'.

The closure rusk mill at the Bristol

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-JUDGES RULE O TEBBIT'S NEW ANTI-UNION POWER TO THE COURTS The Bill will allow employers and union-busting organisations to courts against workers scale not seen since 1901. *Unions will be legal immunity for range of industrial actions. * Judges will not only arbitrate but will be able to fine and imprison trade unions as well as award massive costs against both use the on a deprived of wide secretary Norman Tebbit's new Bill against the unions has been unveiled. It is one of the boldest attacks on union rights since the notorious Taff Vale judgment of 1901, which gave birth to the Labour Party.

Here we explain what the Bill means and how it can be fought.

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