Collapsed A recent article in the Plymouth-based Sunday Independent quoted Sir John Boyd, AUEW general secretary, hadn't sacked him we would have done so in the next few days'. The Robinson out, and the strike collapsed.
At its highpoint 40,000 BL workers were out. Many of them were from plants like Castle Bromwich and Canley, due to close this year. Duffy and Boyd did the job that BL managers couldn't do. They ensured effective action BL Cars — to defend Robinson was called off.
The AUEW is not like other unions. It has a Robinson affair -Of the ISTC nationally.
the movement cannot under the Tories' new laws?
LCDTU the ballot. "The have to in 1972.' such conference.
to discuss Prior Bill.
The Tories and the rest of British industry will be watching for the outcome of the wondering if they too get away with sacking their own militant shop stewards. Before the steel strike began several ISTC militants were sacked with the agreement Derek Robinson is a member of the CP. The CP dominates the Broad Left and the LCDTU.
defend its own militants, then who will defend the thousands of ordinary trade unionists will be victimised We must make Robinson one of the central issues at this not by saying how 'responsible' a trade unionist he was, but by organising a fight to get hım back into BL Saturday 26 January, 10.30am, Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London Credentials from Jim Hiles, 137 Wanstead Park Road, Ilford, Essex.
Scargill added his voice to the criticism of the engineers' leaders. He said that if any branch officials of his had been sacked 'not a single cobble of coal would have been moved' until they were reinstated.
He explained that the attack on Robinson was part of a general attack on the British trade union movement. Prior proposals with all other anti-working class laws be thrown out by mass working class action of the sort that defeated the Industrial Relations Act resolution the delegates pledged full support for whatever action necessary to secur of Robinson anc Toe remstatencil! the withdrawal of disciplinary charges taken against the three other shop stewards involved; Len Brindle, Jact Adams and Mick Clarke.
But the question of calling any action was not put to While delegates i at int Liason Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions conference will be able matier fortnight, it seems unlikely that the Leyland combine will call the all-out action in Leyland plants and beyond that will reinstate Robinson and win round one of the battle against the
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