U.K. WAGE STRIKES

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30144, 30 May 1963, Page 18

U.K. WAGE STRIKES

Car-Making ■ Slowed

(N.Z.P.A .-Reuter — Copyright) LONDON, May 27.

About 18.000 were idle throughout Britain because of strikes in the car industry. The biggest stoppage affected the Pressed Steel Company’s plant, just outside Oxford, a major supplier of car bodies.

A continuing unofficial strike by 206 members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, which began last Friday over pay, caused 8000 workers to be sent home this morning. - "The virtual shutdown on our plant will affect the production of Bootes, Jaguars, the British Motor Corporation, Rover, and the whole of the motor industry as it goes on,” a company spokesman said.

Another unofficial strike over pay among several hundred maintenance men and external transport drivers, which began last Friday, made some 6000 men idle at the Standard - Triumph works at Coventry.

At Birmingham, a mass walk-out by- about 300 men from ten factories of the Joseph Lucas organisation., a major supplier of automobile electrical components, halted production tor a token one day. The men, engaged in a wage dispute, have banned all overtime working for the rest of this week At the Jaguar car factory, in Coventry, a strike by more than 700 day workers over an incentive bonus scheme caused 2800 other workers to be sent home. The strikers will not meet again until Wednesday.