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Sogat Makes Ipc Strike Official

The Week Vol. 7, No. 2, 12 January 1967 · p. 4 of the scan · 110 words

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from g printing correspondent Mr. Briginshaw's union, the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades, has made the strike by 200 workers at the International Publishing Corporation subsidiary, George Rose (Printers) of Thornton Heath, official. The union has taken this step because the firm, which publishes The Statist and a number of trade publications, has dismissed two former apprentices for whom work is not available. In a statement, the firm threatened that unless the strikers went back protective noti¢tes would be issued and that "it might not be possible to sustain production and employment." The strike, if continued with, would bring the factory to a halt "in a matter of days."

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