Red Weekly1973Red Weekly No. 19, 21 September 1973Police Harass Adwest Pickets
Red Weekly No. 19, 21 September 1973 · p. 2 of the scan · 127 words
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Workers from Adwest Engineering were harassed by the police and threatened with arrest when they picketed the home of the company chairman last Monday evening The picket was intended to drive home to the management the determination of the workers.
Reading factory since 20 August. They are Sunderland, with consequent large scale redundancies.
The action has already stopped production at Jaguar, and Jensen, while 400 workers at Lansing-Bagnali have been laid off. In addition, the price of the company & shares has fallen by 60p to 225p. Nevertheless the management have made no senous attempt to achieve a settlement, mitments made at the previous session. as the following record of the six meetings between the workers and the management Friday 31 August-a waste of time.