women's rights throughout labour movement. And indeed, Roger Butler, Southall Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers Secretary and a leading figure in the Strike Committee, wrote in the September issue of the AUEW Journal: "The Trico equal pay strike is the most important dispute at present taking place in the country. outcome of the strike will have major implications for the entire trade union movement and, in particular, for thousands of women struggling for equal pay......
But for all the rhetoric in the AUEW Engineering union omicials controlling ine conduct of the Strike Committee have all along worked to prevent the determination or ine women workers Tom Finally, since Trico have a virtual District monopoly on the supply of wipers to the motor industry, the traditional trade union tactic of national-blacking of the product raises the question of lay-offs - perhaps even the snutdown or car plants on a nationa scale. When the union leaders are up to their necks collaborating with the Government and car bosses to boost profits, such a prospect must make still AUEW officials' flesh creep.
This is why the district leadership, in running shy of these issues, has allowed the strike to drag on for so long and demanded such tremenCOUS sachinice rom involved. These officials are not right-wingers. On the contrary, the resolutions, It's what the CP and appealed in AUEW Journal for national blacking.
through the District Committee - haven't done The Strike Committee has never been run completely democratically in a way that could involve the mass of strikers. And the DC have avoided a call for a district strike which could really turn the screw on the Employers' Federation and bring the Trico management