MORE WORKERS have joined the strike at Imperial Typewriters, Leicester and well over 600 are now actively involved.
The Imperial factory at Hall is on a four day week and production at Leicester his fallen dramatically. The key Model 80 Department at Leicester has very large orders to fill and many of the non-strikers have heen moved in to keep production up. By the morning of Thursday 5 June, only 29 typewriters were being produced in the first four hours, as opposed to the normal rate of 150.
Management and local Transport and General Workers Union officials are feverishly trying to pretend that all Is well They repeatedly claim that only force of 1600, But counts of workent leaving both Leicester factories show a maximum of 400 still at work, The numbers of workers, both hlack and white, leaving to work elsewhere, and il mystery enidemic that has made 150 workers too "ill' to work Georgu Bromiey, the T&G district secretary, has used the figures to argue that only a small minority of workers is involved in the dispute, and it cannot, therefore, be made official. Bromley gleefully announced that union. headquarters had told him that the action would not rective official backing.
the spots now on tac 10e regional enquiry. Reg Weaver, convener and secretary of 5/221 branch, bas been trying to make some propaganda points. His hand picked shop-stewards commitlee has deplored the "violence' of the pickets and the vicious written and verbal attacks on Reg Weaver and George Bromley.
meeting - but in the works canteen where no strikers can attend!
ets and to attempt to stop appeals to those inside, who have heen joining the strike every day. On several occasions together with any other Asians around, Highfields ghetto.
Disquieting features have emerged over the enquiry. The Strike Committeu has been given virtually ao anformation and were only officially informed on Thursday 5 June, three days after the papers had got the news