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Morris Works Strike To End
18 October 1963
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, Oct. 17
About 1,250 workers at Morris Motors assembly factory at Oxford will be idle tomorrow because of the strike by 1,250 workers at the Morris Motors radiators factory, which has been at a standstill since October 8.
At a mass meeting today the strikers agreed to return to work on Monday, when talks will begin on the cause of, the dispute. the transfer of a man to the polishing department. The assembly men are employed on the production lines making the Morris Minor, 1-5 litre range of Nuffield cars, and the Wolseley 6/110. They will report for work again on Monday. The M.G. Car Co. at Abingdon is also affected, and about 100 workers on M.G.B. sports car production were without work today.
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