mobilising for the 5 May demo on Chile The significance of this, the first national mobilisation aguinst the Labour povernin the same combine The pay dispute st River Don Stamping in Sheffield & over. The AUEW District Committee, as we described in the last issue of Red Weekly, did its best to sabotage and isolate the workers who had put in a claim well in excess of Phase 3.
The strike committee mado strenuous efforts to escalate the struggle by linking up with Firth Derihon - a neighbouring plant UmOTOeI, asa COSI OE BUIcs pressure from Lhe Distriet Committee the workers at River Dan were persuaded th taturn to zosk on the iaanagement s The geatlemen of the press, as Judge paltry offer of L3.
Now, only a week later, Firth Deribon itself is in dispute. On Wednesduy there was a sit-in strike in purssit of a domestic claim, and a lockout is expected.
In the next tew weeks, gisen the likelibood of an carly sell-out over the national clain, many factories will be forced into locat struggles.
Determined action now by tbc workers at Furth Derihon ohi a came aign in the local factories can win the necessary support troms militants in the industry who are thomseives faced with the neod to strigle independently of the national leadership and its lichfu! ablies oo the District Committee stood in the dock.