TitleRoberts-Arundel Strike Committee: strike appeals, 1968-1968
ReferenceEVT/ROBERTS/1/19
Date
Nov 1966-1968
Production date 1966-11 - 1968-02-21
Scope and ContentStrike appeals. Minutes of meeting of management and union officials (shop stewards requested to leave) at Manchester and District Employers Federation (2 Dec 1966); letters to other unions and trades councils asking for support with replies and offers of support; letters about blacking products and vehicles; letter from J Cox MD to workers about dispute (13 Dec 1966) with copy of agreement between Federation and Trade Unions (1955); letter to Ministry of Labour about right to refuse work where company in dispute with union; letters to men accepting jobs to withdraw labour; minutes of meeting management and union officials (21 Dec 1966); returns of ballot for levy on local union branches; letter from Federation advising that they may take action against any of their workers who take time off to picket (Jan 1967); lists firms dealing with Roberts-Arundel; minutes of meeting organised by Maurice Orbach MP and Mayor E Brindley about ending dispute and violence on picket line (Mar 1967); with newspaper cuttings about strike and other job losses in area; also handwritten notes by Eddie Frow [a few items have a running number file reference]
Extent1 folder
LanguageEnglish
Persons keywordRoberts-Arundel, Ministry of Labour, Amalgamated Engineering Union, Orbach, Maurice, Brindley, E
SubjectStrikes, Trade union meetings, Picketing
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfile
Normal locationAG Roberts Arundel Box 4 (Room 37)