CAR STRIKE PLANS
200 Men Reject Union Call (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, July 12. Nearly 200 British car workers last night rejected a union call for a mass strike of 50.000 workers to protest against the recent dismissal of 6000 redundant men. Their refusal to strike is the first open resistance by rank-and-file unions for a strike on July 23 at the British Motor Corporation, British newspapers said today. The rebelling workers, all members of the 950.000-strong Amalgamated Engineering Union, which has backed the strike, met last night in Brimingham. They passed a resolution saying that union demands on the corporation were “unreasonable, impracticable and unjustifiable.” . All the men concerned are employed by the Morris Motors tractors and transmissions branches of the corporation.
The strike call has still to be approved by the top leadership of all 15 unions on Saturday, but the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the most powerful union involved, has already given its backing. A strike of about 14,000 steel maintenance craftsmen, threatened for next Saturday, has been postponed indefinitely as the result of a Government promise to appoint a court of inquiry to investigate their claim for a pay margin.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28019, 13 July 1956, Page 13
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