Leyland blacking supports Jepson | IMGpapers 1968

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The light to win reinstatement of the victimised TGWU convenor at the Armstrong Patents factory in Hull took a big step forward last week with the decision by members of Transport & General Workers 5/55 branch, covering some 600 workers at British Leyland, Oxford, to black Armstrong shock absorbers.

Already several lorries containing Ariastrong equipment have been turned back from the Cowley factory:

The branch sent a telegram to the TGWU executive, demanding support for the Armstrong strike, and has made an immediate donation of E25 to the Strike Fund.

Jean Jepson, the sacked convenor at Armstrongs, bus also been invited to address the next 5/55 branch meeting.

These unportant initiatives should now he followed up throughout the Red Weekly 5 Aprd 1974

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