Comrades
The workers in the Staveley Iron and Chemical Company near Chesterfield, who have decided that Mr. Ron Hewitt Should be sent to Coventry for another stretch, are slowly being defeated. Each time that they have to re-impose their sentence it becomes less and less defensible. Mr. Ron Hewitt, by a most impressive display of human dignity, is showing his fellows up for what they are : the petty tyrants of their day. His only crime was that, as a member of one union, he refused to join a one day token strike called by another, the Amalgamated Engineering Union. Mr. Boyce, the district Secretary of the AEU, is reported to have said that 'It's none Of the public's business.' For that he has only Mr. Hewitt to thank. The last notorious occasion on which a man was sent to Coventry, he committed suicide. Meanwhile, the unions Wonder why their power is distrusted.
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