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Components Men To End Strike
1 October 1963
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 30
The 400 strikers at the Birmingham components firm of Weathershields. Ltd., whose two-week-old strike halted car production at the Rover Motor Company factory, and threatened other assembly plants. decided at a mass meeting here today to resume work tomorrow.
Later a Rover official said that production would be resumed on Wednesday, and the 1,200 men who have been idle since Friday should return to work then.
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