NCB 0. 10 muel miners this week the racing newspaper sporting Life.
new technology Mirror newspapers in July. Own Maxwell has not got all his own way in the outcome of the settlement. He has failed in his original intention of transfering the production Sporting Life out of Holborn circu to the Oyez press in Bernondsey south London. The NGA ha preserved the principle Inal papers by national newspaper proprietors should not be moved from Fleet Street.
Maxwell was also forcAN AGREEMENT has been reached in the 11-day dispute with Robert Maxwell over the production of But this is only a temporary let up in the war between the press barons and the Fleet Street unions. Maxwell has made no secret of his intention of breaking the power of the print unions by moving out of central London to the docklands to introduce slash the workforce. He restated his intention of moving the production of Led to back down over his threat to produce a large Mancheste due to NGA SUNTAI resistance.
SOGAT warned Maxwell that they would pull out workers in Scotland producing the profit making Record if he went aheac with this.
But strings are clearly attached to the deal from the union's point of view which has not yet been ac cepted by the chapels. The Sporting Life is to be sold, most probably to the Racing Posi, the firm that was threatening Maxwell with a rival racing Daily. The 300 staff of the newspaper have been told that thes will be 'absorbed into Mir. ror Group Newspapers' staffs under a policy of no automatic with a promise that a new, free London evening newspaper is to be published next March. Maxwell is out to renegotiate the terms and conditions of CHOVENCIEl Mirror likesy peat 100 jobs Ks likely jobs Sood go in these negotia- Sporting workers Since the defeat of the NGA al Warrington the Fleet Street bosses the three M's, Maxwell, Murdoch and Lord Matthews Stave worked together to smash the power of the Incy nope the unions in the industry will cut another's throats in negotiating the deals for the plants LICW outside central London The EEPTU has already signed no-strike dea with Eddie Shah SOGAT has made similar offer to Murdoch for his new premises in the East End.
This will leave those who fight to defend jobs working practices against the new technology deals isolated as we have seen :300 NGA members sacked for doing just that in wolverhamp: ton and Kent.
The power of the prin! unions remains. But it is battle in the printing. industry that unless a united fight is waged by all the ditterent union the employers will get their way and tame the unions in print once and for all.