Over 500 demonstrators, most of them TGWU members, municipal car park on june 8, Poore mic roun town in support of the sacked strikers at Friction Dynamics. England and Scotland as well as all over Wales, and the march was applauded by local people who lined the route to the A rally there was addressed by Labour and Plaid Cymru o support the campaign by the GWU for a change in the law to be sacked after eight weeks in dispuce.
The main speaker at the rally received part of his speech was when he attacked the lack of support from the bair governOctober 7. ( "It cannot be right for people to be sacked for delendin their conditions. How can it be right for our Labour goverment to stand idly by lor 12 months, and do nothing'" he asked. areas).
We elected a Labour govemment to protect British workers, not to let employers attack them."
Morris wound up by warning Friction Dynamics boss Craig Smith "We ain't going away. and telling the Labour governThe best received speaker Gerald Payne. He insisted that even after a year our the strikers were not going to give up. But he pointed out that even if the legislation was changed to prevent strikers being sacked, it might mean that employers tribunals cannot force reinThough the march and rally were very militant, those preserx werent asked to do any more than continue their support. No future plans were announced for more demon strations - and there was cercainly no mention of trying to get boycots of the produce being produced by scab labour at Friction Dynamics. Caerarfon: some of the 500 demonstrators toho have stayed loyal to the Frichion Dynamics strikers