remaries to Saturday's conference of the National lons —no significant gein from the last conference against redundancy.
Lock-outs are a tactic which employen are using more and more these days.
In London, following closely on the heels of Hoover, the management at Associated Automation in Willesden have locked out their entire production workforce, Last summer the company, which Is part of Arold Weinstock's GEC empire agreed to pay a threshold payment to its 600 workers. Montlu Later they wete still waiting. So the deodon wat talen to work to mile.
The management was angry at thin GrOK REcp anu lock-oot ses product ion workooe: Foe workers clock carus were removed on 14 November and the foreman told them to go home.
Toc manar-acne Beu DiaTaay Lu BIG IOC PECS OVET WISE DHO OCCULLCU When the locked-out-workers arrived to sign on at the local social secutity olfice, they discovered that the management had got there finst and informed the ошамия слас тле worklorce was оп snike and therefore should not be paid "Go forth and multiply!" ware the charman's closing Rank and File Movement -the industrial wing of the The delegates numbered 422, from 311 organisatalthough there were more strike committees and stewards committees than last year. But the main resolution [possed by 292 votes to B4) led nowhere. All it proposed was big wage claims against inflation and pious slogens benefits!
Like the Hoover worker at Petivale. the worker at Associated Automation Sear that massive nodundancick ane in tha the workum by becping them out over Christmas and forting many of them to tind fresh jobs.
B85 STrOOPS CAMOUTOU COaL CEEL ErE attempting lo closu down the factory.
There wat a week's stoppupe in this conn CHIU OSE SCAL PIER LAE MR:ICIT tred to temove machinery from the plant.
As one woman worker remarkod: "ln this way the managemcat sre able to rationa! ise the workfonce and at the same time dodgu out of the expensc of redundancy payments."
The rates of pay at Associaled Auto The Conference orga ers were defaited over their patronising efforts to pravont speakers on the Women's Charter Campaign. Hilary Wainwright (Durham ASTMSI (above/said the resolution limiting support of wom en's strugales tó the issue of Equal Pay went no further than resolutions of the TUC in 1880, But the chair managed to rail-road through a procedural resolution to pre vent tha Charter heing voted on.
As long as International Socialism desperately hold on to the ides that simply hating the bosses and joining IS is the answer to capitalism's erisis, Rank and File witl CODERIC CO ALINA THOMENE marion are by tar the lowest in the whole district. Dologations of shop stewards from HR TAEDE BISCHHE DHE-E WUIK RIACES H the area last week to sock support were met by crics of disbelier that thoir Wapps wene so low, Laboures get a basic rate of only E22 a werk, on which it is cleariy impossible to-live, espocially in Landon.
Skilled coolmakers get 136 compared with ES5 af the neighboaring Rolls Koyce plant.
UNANIMOUSLY
imously docied not to retur to work uniu guarantees ol more nay are toren coming. Now a idesperate fight it on with the social socurity office over Lhe payment of benefits Some of the workers especially single men and wamen aro