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chemicals being put throuch a frace workplaces, with placards designating loyalist paramilitaries in the meating broke dawn after q fow mimites atrike official, On the 28th, the strikers voted te returs te work having achieved recognition and negotiating rights, The significance of this apparently finer action cannot be overestimated in terms of the impact en the workers of West Belfast. Like Tany other firms in the ores, Eastwood's made thelr profits Out of a warkforce where union= Lsation wes ether ooneexiepent Or weak and disorganised They made = habit of emploving ex-interness and: prisoners wha could be expected te accept Low Per and retten conditions since they could find Little slternatiyve employment, Labourer’ rates were paid for «killed and semiekilled work -— basic pay £35 a week, Mo washing facilities existed for « workforce af over TA, 2 auteide todlets were supposed te suffice; contrary to law mi registered nurse was on the premisns4 A grant from the government for a Canteen wus used instead for a stare, while an ald refrigerating van soryad a5 2 Canteen, DIRECT ACTION GETS RESULTS Matters cam: ta a heal when ane of the workers, Colum Donnelly, was The backbone of Fianna Fril's econ= Ching wes remaved from the yard, and that there .ere witnesses to peave Coalline' iapacence. ft this Faiot the 26 HOw! members ostrich, Help waa offered by the Lazcal Cormplorment Actian Goanmdtree [CAG], Leaflets were churtled out te publicise the dispute and eslvanise Support io the area. Local shop= stewards and rank and file miLit— ante G@tganiand solidarity ia their aan wWirkplecas, and an June Iiith,, the Egatwood's picket Line was reinforced by a musasive display of selldarlty, as they were joined by 500 workers merching in their own seriously injured after drums of contingents from thedr separate mentiser expladed; he tate in 30 their vardous unions, minutes late the follewing morn- Tt was this emample of organised dng and was promptly sacked, Con= fags militaner and: the threat te ditions at the yarda were oot the epest it thet forced the iseue, aoly aspect of the workers! lives Kaatweodts menagement azrecd ta being fut at risk: the drivers hemotinte with the HOKU boss, were cdusisteotly threateosd br Hinois: aod although the first thipevard and at Sandy Row, WieH Titicetent objected to te At the same ting o group af work= presence af ‘sacked? shop—-stewere Were sultisrily sacked) among ard, Wike Galling, the cantin— these was Mike Collins, » shop- wed work af ether shop=s tewards stemware diemlesed for alleced in the ares resulted in Eest— Thett, despite the [act that o— Rood! serge ine te union nee