After their own pathetic attempts to break the strike by carrying on working from local hotels, management are now using the law to do their dirty work. It took Mr Justice Chapman just five minutes to do the bosses' bidding and grant the repossession order at the hearing in chambers last Friday.
Now management will be content to wait for the union officials - who have refused to support the strike, engaged in red-baiting campaigns, and instructed the men to withdraw from the occupied plant action called off. Under pressure the engineering union stewards have now accepted an instruction to withdraw, but a final decision by all the shop stewards had not been made at the time of going to press.
Use of the state The use of the state to attack the strike at Massey's is an attack on every trade unionist. Already writs have been used to smash a seven week long occupation against MASSEY-FERGUSON, the multi-national tractor firm, has been granted a High Court order for the repossession of its Banner Lane, Coventry plant. The plant has been occupied and picketed for a month as part of the campaign for a substantial wage increase by 4,500 production workers at Massey's three Coventry plants.
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