but nis is no compensation to the electricians for their militant weeks on unemployment benefit surine tre maintenance encineers sirike, and two weeks on social during their occuparion. on me omer пало ine electricians nave also retused to give an inch to the demand from Owen for a 'no strikes' guarantee Hic call by mandeement d Ine plant only nad three troublefree days in 1976 has to be set of ine car and com rents ine and components usury to lay on workers di ine drop or a nat in order to put the •lame for loss or earninos ov tot of workers their living standards and condiNevereless. me torea or cio sure cannot be taken lightly. claim of the electricians for lection against the effects of layois could be extended untouch d callaicora натаптерь wee throughout the motor industry the basis in itself for the demand of work-sharing without loss of pay a unnyine delane dedinst UnE manaeements split tactics and the threat of redundancy.
TAKEOVER Any takeover by the Nationa Enterprise Board of the Darlaston - SORCERS TOE WHICH muDery owen nave seen ancline - would involve massive redun*LENIN dissolved the elected Constituent Assembly at bayonet point, set up the secret police, burned books, tive's instituted censorship and either imprisoned his policooperated in all this and, in addition, called for the militarisation of the labour force and carried out chemoare mass executions w me kearms You might be forgiven for thinking that this little reachonary lecture in russian sor was bree Tom the journal of the National Front or the National Association For Freedom. But no, it appeared in the Christmas edition of the Management Newsletter to the staff of the magazine-publishing company Mercury House, which publishes Hot Car, Car Mechanics and, ironically enough, Personnel Management -vial occasioned Inis nistorical outburst: I could read Inis Ine co members of the Nanonal Union or Journalists at Mercury House will be out on the streets, nignung for mei claim or t15-13 or rougni 25 per cent]. higher sick pay, redundancy compensalon, anu oo securi, asterica reo-paune is on i one arrow in the Mercury House management's bow.
As the 4% per cent par agreement. like the recent weather, takes a firm and frosty grip on workers' wage-packets, it is important to note and publicise the gradual resistance which is building magazine and book sectors of the publishing in dustries, starting with Mereury House.
The Magazine and Book branches of the NUJ, contical opponents without trial or killed them. Trotsky has begun to crystallise into action. be something to do with the fact that by the time you ing no strike pay or official backing.
committee in the branches and outside who wages policy last year, in the face of the NUJ execuacceptance TUC deal. As 1976 drew to a close, that opposition Eight chapels [the work-place unit of organisation in are orint ana buousane unions in me wo branches have now submitted or are about to submit annual claims well in excess of the 4½ per cent, most of them aiming for figures in the region of 15 per cent - 10 come near to the inflation rate at least. The companies concerned incrude suen well-known publisning nouses as Penguin Books, Thames & Hudson, and HeineMercury House are just first in line and their claim will still onls bring them up to the average for the magazine sector! But they will of course be receivAttempts are therefore under way to build a support which can help to raise badly needed funds and also link with and support the other chapels which will almost certainly be -Come out in future months. Militants from the IMG, ICL, Workers League, IS and the journalists' rank-and-file group "Journalists Charter" are involved The courageous lead given by the 26 Mercury House workers must be supported by all those in the industry wish to smash Labour's incomes the employers offensive.
Messages of support and donations should be sent to: Mercury House Strike Committee, c/o NUJ Magazine