STRIKE OVER SWEAR WORD
2000 Return To Factory (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 19. Two thousand men whose unofficial strike over a swear word threatened British car production decided today to return to work pending negotiations. The go-back decision was secured by a narrow majority at a mass meeting outside the Birmingham factory of Hardy Spicer, who supply driving shafts for 95 per cent, of Britain’s car manufacturers. The men went on strike at the week-end at the management’s refusal to sack a foreman who swore at a worker arriving late on the night shift and then sent him home. They claimed that a similar word used by an ordinary worker to an overseer would mean immediate dismissal. The management said the word was in everyday use and not considered one of abuse.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29108, 21 January 1960, Page 9
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