Two hundred of the Asian strikers at Imperial have now returned to work, The rest of the strikers expect to be back by the end of this week.
Despite the return to work the Asian workers are keeping their are taking place and the strike committee is still meeting.
However the long-awaited TGWU Report is not yet out. Brian Mathers, TGWU regional organiser has now gone on holiday, which means a further two weeks delay.
'BALANCED'
TOWU officials are dropping heavy hints that the Report will be "balanced", The strikers - probably correctly - are suspicious that it will not recommend the re-vamping of the entire shop stewards system in the factory:
Weaver, the factory convenor, is aware that the Inquiry will probably point out that there are not enough shop stewards for a factory of that size. A new steward was elected during the strike and it seems clear that there will be further attempts to get more "Weaver men' clected before the publication of the Inquiry.
The right wing are making every effort to shore up their support. Durcalled an official GWU branch meeting. George Bromley, the union's district secretary, graced that meeting with his presence. The Asians never got a meeting throughout their thirteen weeks' strike.
BLESSING
Weaver and Bromley gave their 'official blessing to the one-day strike of the white workers, thereby fanning racialist sentiments, as they see this as the only way to maintain tbeir base in the union Up to now the retaliatory strategy has been something of a damp squib. The clerical staff refused to Join the strike. The policy of sending the so-called "troublemakers' to 'Coventry" bas met with limited success and has only been operated ing the one-day racialist strike, Weaver by odd groups of whites.
One of the tasks of the mass meetings - to which all workers are Invited - will be to discass actions against any attempt by management or reactionary white workers to victimise former strikers. Thin means that militants cannot be picked off at departmental level The Imperial strikers also sent pickets to support the women strikers at Kenilworth Components and invited the Kenilworth strikers to last Wednesday's mass meeting.
have set up a Women's Committee.
the problems facing women in the site, stopping most of the work ou the pipeline.
attacked by company foremen in jeeps, but fortunately none of the attempts to win support in the local labour movement-notably from promised to reinforce the picket lines if necessary All in all, the organising of the strike has set a fine example, especi ally with the use of flying squads to tour the area-visiting factories, pits and building sites to gather support The striketsare also publishing a daily strike bulletin and holding as shop stewards in management ranks.
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writers struggle' Asian women involved in the strike This committee will not only discuss the remaining workers walked off the On Monday the picket line was the struggle.
pickets was hurt. Since then the pickets have been making very successtul