accept. The pickets outside had other ideas. THE BRITISH ENITY'S O STRENST CUNT CORPE DISTRICT OVER 500 angry craft workers in the steel industry gathered outside Congress House in London last Thursday to picket the meeting of the National Craft Coordinating Committee. The delegates to the NCCC had come to London to discuss the latest offer from BSC which union leaders had recommended they The message to those talking inside was loud and clear: 'No sell out — no job loss', they chanted. If the delegates at the meeting had been in any doubt as to what union members thought of the offer they had no excuse once they again.
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DO 20% Wyn Bevan was outside Congress House, together with several coachloads of other steelworkers from South Wales. He thought that the officers of the NCCC should be forced to resign if they dared accept the offer.
But in the end there was no need for resignations or further anger. The NCCC roundly rejected the offer by a majority of over 100, and made it quite clear to BSC that they would need a lot more than 10 per cent to get them back mittee week flagging. pickets Hadfields Yorkshire, frustration. Confederation Chairperson shop stewards com Eclipse Tools, Sheffield AS THE steel strike enters its eighth the determination the no sign of But there are signs of increasing anxiety about how long the strike is taking to bite. The growing dissatisfaction with the way the strike is being conducted was expressed by the South Yorkshire strike committee when it passed a resolution of censure against Bill Sirs last week.
The recent pitched battles between and police outside only the militancy of the steelworkers in South but also express their Frustration That frustration was highlighted at a recent meeting, about 200 strong, of shop stewards and officials of the of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions in Sheffield. An appeal was made to the meeting b Bernard Connolly, from the Nationa Crafts Coordinating Committee of steel industry, and backed by Keith Jones of the ISTC, for the Engineering Unions to step up thei solidarity boycotts to cover all stee products rather than just raw steel.
clear the engineering workers what the object •We want to see you out on the The reaction of many engineering shop stewards was that this was an unrealistic demand. How could they ask their members to virtually lay themselves off within The discussion which followed signs OT cracks in the support which SECCI workers have been receiving since the beginning of the strike. It summed up now facing they cannot win unless the strike begins to hit key sectors of manufacturing industry, at the same time they need the support of the very workers that will be thrown out of work by the strike!
The strike is at a crucial stage — it is now recognised by most workers that the steelworkers fight is a struggle against the Tory government. That recognition has to be turned into Bernard Connolly's wish to see the on the SUCCES go beyond a discussion about what are and what constitutes raw steel, and become an explicit