LEEDS BACKS CLOSED-SHOP DEMAND
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Sdays' notice of dismissal was given to 14 employees. of Leeds Corporation Passenger Transport Department, on August I, in consequence of the department's "closedshop ". policy. Thispolicy, approved at Leeds City Council's meeting on July, 30, after a three-hour debate, was adopted because Leeds branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union intimated that as from August 9 its members would refuse to work with employees whowere not members of an appropriate trade union.
The employees who had received notice would be allowed to continue in the department's service if they joined an appropriate trade union before the notice expired.
During the city council's debate,, a question was raised by Aid. J. Croysdale as to what the 'Union's letter meant by the term "appropriate trade union." One would imagine, he said, that the appropriate union was the one which sent the letter. He assumed that any of the smaller unions not in the Trades Union Congress would not be considered appropriate.