MANY workers in heavy industries suca as steer ana engineerm! believe that cutbacks in public expendure do Some believe that it is only faceless civil servants whose jobs are at stake.
They have been taken in by the Callaghan/Healey lie machine that jobs need directing back to profitable* manufacturing industry, and that CULATE painless industrial workers. Consider the following story.
In the last six months in GN's Castle Works in Cardiff three serious accidents have taken place in the Bar/Strip Mill, involving third degree burns from hot metal. trade union oureaucrats have worked to confine all such actions LO Tiere DrOLesE For militant speechmaking by the likes of Alan Fisher A few weeks ago a 17-year-old you was burned to ocain, trap ped on a steel coil conveyor.
Despite the severe burns. the lad managed to survive until an ambulance arved. bull men took minutes for the ambulance to get to the nearest hospital with a burns unit: at Chepstow, some thirty miles up the M4 from Cardiff. The young worker died during the journey.
As well as this death, two other serious accidents have occurred in the Bar/Strip Shop within the last months. In Cardiff there are , steelworkers. Cardi also has the most modern hospital in Wales. But what the hospital does make the right wing's acceptance of the Government-TUC deal conrovernmen keeping its side of the bargain. But in car nue evervone Knows ma not have is a burns unit, because plans to start such a unit were shelved in the last round of public expenditure cuts.
So any steelworker involved in an accident with not metal nas to endure a 75 minute journey to get latest round of cuts, the journey will take even longer: because the Healey axe has lighted upon the Chepstow hospital as its next tar get. Steelworkers in Cardiff will then have to travel to Bristol for treatment.
Whether in hospitals or steelworks, the conclusion is the same: the cuts can kill, so kill the cuts SEVE VOKE