Edwardes' green light for Leyland confrontation

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 1-2 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 4 of the scan

make them self-contained and more manageable.

partieslarly within bothersome Leyland Cars Testand cha tramon Michael Fa The plan, drawn up wardes, will mean separate acccanting within the cars group. point the finger at the main loss makers and concentrare the atLangbridge and Cowley will almost certainly be the first in the firing line. THE EXPECTED break up" of Leyland has wow been revealed. The four divisions of the company, Leyland Cars, Truck and Bus, Special Products and Leyland International are to be consolidated as subsidiary companies complete with their own boards and non-executive chairpersons. Apparently the aim is to But -as the Economist makes clear this week: *More within the coming 12 months." The re-organisation is another step in clearing the decks for an offensive against Leyland workers. PAT HICKEY, shop steward at Rover Solibull explains:

The rearganisation management's success in the which aims to take negotiating Fights out of the hands of trade union bureaucrats. inder the heading Speed Ahead', managing directPIERS CORBYN reviews the Teading up Trespons Low conference Birmingham this weekend:

THE CRIMINAL LAW Act, aimed at curbing all occupations and squatting, comes into effect on 1 December, This is a threat to the sort of achon aurelighten have taken in occupying stations in a number of towns. to feel the full force of the new legislation The London chreat comes as GL's offer to give tenancies lo the Kk? squatters In its prop Or LICS. George Fremlett, spokesperson bousine London, bas treatened a crack dawn starting in December using civil The London Squatters Union welcomed the offer of tenancie which they explained and Tremilet admitted) was the result mass squang u wis past they are demanding that the GLC drops the idea of a crackdown on ine nomeless peop ened to squat afler the arbitrary 25 October cut-oft date.

The GLC "purse squatters as the first target fo the Trespass Laws. The Goveriprinty antiquat a bette primarily anti-squatting. rost has colluriastienly take

----- pull-quotes -----

They will