Oxford fitters' strike off
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• Fifty fitters at the Oxford depot of British Road Services called off a 12-day-old pay strike on Monday, following a back-to-work appeal by Mr. Alan Law, the Transport and General Workers Union Midlands haulage secretary. Mr. Law agreed to argue the men's case at formal negotiations with the local management in Oxford.
On Sunday he had successfully prevented a walk-out, in sympathy with the fitters, by 105 car-delivery and ferry drivers, but his appeal to the fitters at this meeting was rejected.
It was following a further appeal to their shop stewards on Monday that the strike was called off.
Mr. Law accused the management of "dragging its feet" and declared that he would "stand no nonsense-.
The stoppage had kept most the carferrying vehicles off the road and interrupted the supply of car bodies from Pressed Steel Fisher factories in Oxford and the Midlands.