The Herald says

Last week Mr Kevin McNamara, MP, one of our columnists wrote about the donation which War on Want made to the families of Grunwick strikers.
The Managing Director of Grunwick, Mr George Ward, has objected strongly to the article and the Catholic Herald has offered him the right of reply. His answer appears on page three in place of Mr McNamara's column. Mr McNamara is on holiday until September.
Neither the opinions of Mr McNamara, nor Mr Ward, commit the Catholic Herald. We believe in the right of all to hold their opinions and in a matter such as this — which should be of great concern to Catholics — to state them freely in the Herald.
Both Mr Ward and Mr McNamara are Catholics. Mr McNamara says that Catholics should support the Grunwick strikers. Mr Ward says that hie company has done nothing which contradicts Catholic social teaching.
The facts used by both sides in this argument are at present being investigated by Lord Scarman. It is impossible for the Herald to pass judgment on the facts Of the case for itself and therefore the paper reserves editorial comment, if any, until Lord Scarman makes his report.
However Mr Ward has also asked for an apology, Mr McNamara says that because the argument about the Grunwick situation is so strong from his point of view, he would not wish to rest his case upon any facts which were inaccurate and nor would he wish to appear less than fair to Mr Ward. Mr Ward took exception to various points in Mr McNamara's article, some of which he has replied to in his own article.
To clarify his position, Mr McNamara says he understands that with regard to overtime pay at Grunwick before the strike, the flat rate was paid for the first half hour only, after that time and a quarter was paid for the next six hours, and after that time and a half.
With regard to the workers having to ask permission to go to the lavatory by raising their hand, this occurred he said, during one period, In one department. The £28 a week he quoted was the starting pay only.