Strife.
The proposal is to set up a supFoot's fear is that the 'closed shop', won by the trade union movement and now to be recog nised in law, actually will be puc in Liverpool has ended in victory.
The 125 women strikers are weary struggle. They achieved a victory overyone thought was Impossible: every women is going back to work with a written promise of no victimisations, and they got a E3.50 rise even though the stelke was only called for the then L1.20 The only thing the AUEW did After four months the union saw it was time to do something to save face and end the unnecessarily long strugele. Once the elections were over they fixed a date for a one-day area strike and Wingroves immediately crumbled. The ALEW only postponed the strikes until negotiations were completed The victory at Wingraves was due to the personance or the wonica 1 was charly won degate the official leaderships. The strike, in many ways a parallet of the defcated SEt strike in Manchester, could going hack after 18 weeks of a bitter, CATE TES for this strike was to make it official. casily bie been sold down the river, had the women not organised exrensive blacking throughout Liverpool and olher cites, collected massive donations by visüting factories in the arca, and publicised the strike. They explained why the strike should be supported by all trade unionists, and durine the octoger eisenon campar publicly demanded support from Labour This strugde of women workers contains a number of extremeiy minortant lessons, LE shows Diat wenten iust De prepated to be active to organise theinseiser to compaign throughout the labour moventent getting support and explaining why their struggle is in the interest of of workers, It showis the ossosity of national support campaigns, and for women to explain their actions order to strengthen this particularty WERR SOCLOO DE BIE MOTKUIE CIBSS During the strike police were actins for the manapentent trying to intimidate the pickets, while the AUEW looked the • other way. The first large-scale insolvemena of the police took place on the same wock as Fords pickets were arrested by the SPG so the ALEW coule hardly sy it couldn't Bappen to men in major aco tors of industry and the unions! Hawker Siddeley this winter, With chis NA REINAIS ASO EOCLES to alou no more work to be sabcontracted out trom the lactory, and to call in ale present suacon nacts.
WORK TO RULE
APEX members at Brough have added to the comnans s dificulties in rosent weeks by imposing a slective work to cule (especially in the stores and in selation to computing facilities) and uther shop floor workforce ile. This dispute which is about a pay claim, has lugluightod kers, shown for instance in their first ever boe-day strike. AlEX bave bom supporlod by other unions and relations between the different proups of workers are hetter than at any time since the 1972 strike by the Brough enpineers, when APEX menbets crossed AUEW picket lines.
o genca tae sia tom as all explosive ono. There is a feeling among warkers" Juders at Brough ther Sir Arnold Hall and the Hawker Siddeley board are sc enraged abour the possibility of nacionalisstien that they will be prepared to allow the firm to go to rack and ruin mather than bani it over gracefully, If the management's part, Um demand is very licely to go up for an accupation, imme diate nationalisation and kick out the