by The Hawk

14th May 1976, Page 60

14th May 1976

Page 60

Page 60, 14th May 1976 — by The Hawk

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And another thing...

It's incredible—for months we hear nothing of Jackson Moore and URTU then, abracadabra! up they pop twice in one week. Not only does he create a weekend stir at Harrogate and cause Jim Porteous to walk out of the Tipper Conference (was this normally reticent Scot the only one to disagree with the speaker or the only one awake?). But the URTU man's colleague W. French has caused a more long-term stk.

He has published in the URTU paper Wheels the registration numbers of vehicles and the companies he wants URTU members to black. Well, he doesn't really want them to do it; to be fair, the is telling them to do so.

And why does Mr French want his lads to become militant and disrupt the lives of their fellow wog-loans? Because the RHA and TGWU have formed a negotiating body and excluded URTU. The URTU men have formed a picket line at

Allison's Transport of Darlington for the past seven weeks and now other drivers, presumably TGWU members, have crossed the line.

The dispute is between TGWU and URTU; it's got nothing to do with Allismis or any other road haulier. But hear what Wheels has to say : "Employers in the Northern Division, you 'have been warned! There is no way we shall agree to follow that which is visited upon us by somebody else."

Hear, hear, Sir. I'm all against dictatorial attitudes too!