Demand beats prices Day NO! TO ME SOCIA:- COM LONCBRIDGE STEWARDS AND WORKER> DEALS WITH WALEY TAL is the striking British Leyland toolroom workers.
Engineering union dent Hugh Scanlon told the workers to call off the action. Terry Duffy, Midlands Organiser and right wing candidate the AUEW elections said plenty of people who want to destroy Leyland and the toolroom workers are giving them a chance Well, Brother Duffy, there are certain people who are trying to make working people pay for the insanities of the economic crisis and you and your friends in the leadership are letting them get away with it.
STOOGES As we go to press it seems that NEB recommend a lock-out at Leylands. It is possible that the Government will agree would be the first time workers nave Labour. There are no depths toc low for this plumb.
But the toolroom workers are fighting back. had their differentials eroded by as much as f10 a week under the Social Contract and they are not taking any more.
Scanlon, faintly echoed by about 'flexibility' in deals. This is bringing all negotiations under the control of the bureaucracy.
The toolroom workers are having none of this. They are defending differentials because there is no lead coming from the union or from the British Leyland Combine Convenors who oppose Phase 2 of the Social Contract.
But there are two reasons wny differentials are enough to defend standards. Firstly, inflation is unchecked and whatever gains the toolmakers win will soon be eaten away again And secondly they provide no solution to the majority of workers who are hit by Presialternative effective unity.
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stooges will been locked out by Government to They have STRIKES more Party, talks wage newspeak of bashing agains and file TUC' not living -In of Government's policies. A clear incomes policy of the Social Contract is what is needed to build a really That alternative must be one which automatically guaran tees to defend wage levels against price rises. This means a nil-norm threshold for based on a cost of living index calculated by the organisations themWhen Alan Fisher of NUPE declares himself against free bargaining he touches a raw nerve. It is true that a policy is needed which even most weakly organised sections of But we may be forgiven for thinking that Fisher ind his friends are just tryin let themselves off the hoc We would like to be proved v rong. We will be more inclined to listen to their defence of the low-paid when they name the day for national strike action in defence of living standards and against the cuts.
Their statements would ring true they declare themselves in favour of turning the 19 April strike action called by the Leyland stewards into a national strike against The Social Contract is not just a wages policy. It is a way workers' living standards in all areas of life. Action by public sector workers would point the way forward for all workers.
These are the policies which must be fought for in the rank called by Leyland Convenors on 3 April Birmingham Town Hall. This presents a real opportunity to coordinate te Darl against the treacherous attacks Labour Government and the union leaders.
Sont is a Nazi Fight hot the blacks - smash the Contract. *No imigration controls.
Labour's racist laws. Smash the National Front.
Last Saturday these slogans reverberated through the working class streets of Stechford. The fascist National Front had decided to march in Stechford to peddle their racist filth. They had intended to whip up the racist vote and intimidate black people. Instead they were met by an anti-racist demonstrafion that dwarfed their racist columns.
wen the NF decided march through Stechford soon to be the scene of a by-election immigrant groups and the organisations of the revolutionary left agreed To moolise Groups like Bangladesh and Kashmiri Workers Associations, the Pakistan Welfare and Afro-Caribbean Self Help Organisation, the Indian Workers Association, as well as the International Marxist Group Socialist Workers Party joined together to form the 26 February Committee. The aim of this committee was to build counter-demonstration show black people in Stechford that they would get practical support against the attacks of the NF.
OBLIVION Unfortunately the 'official' Birmingham labour movement had different Council called a demours before the anti- de- monstration one and monstration was due to leave.
Council decided not to march through Stechwalked through deserted streets into the oblivion of the City Centre. After all this was was not likely to offend white voters!
Around two o'clock the real demonstration left. Some 1500 with banners flying, set off through Stechford. demonstration made loud and clear where it stood on racism. Asians and West Indian workers on the streets did not just nod their support. Encouraged presence movement left the sidewalks and joined the march. They raised to NF and half them every and shop, demonstrators gave out their leaflets. Because this was not just a march of defiance. Its was to win as many people as possible black and white socialist fight against racism Two hundred copies of Red Teal they Weekly were sold. One thousand IMG anti-racist leaflets their were distributed. Over 50 IMG was met by a woman comrade Socialist Workers Party. curtly instructed the coach to follow her, to splinter march which the Trades doubt heartily agree.
- Instead coach to the real anti-fascist IPTON CaTe TOr organiser for one telling mem inat was a positIon Birmingham would GKN.
directing the she chattered people on the nissedwhich is aimed SWP, democratic Stechford, spoke, Asian workers tended. The main theme of the meeting was building united action to defeat the fascists. ing At the end of the meeting day's some 40 Asian workers, inclu- massive ding a group of shop stewards handed in their names saying they would be prepared to work for Heron in What is even more important is that these workers left that meet pledged to build Saturturnout workers shows that they took that pledge seriously.
BOB PENNINGTON SUPPOR SELE * WITHOUTCOMMENT:
centre for protest demonstrations against racialism on Saturday immingham Trades Council and birminonam races Labour Pany, was ongoing campaign against racialNearly 300 marched from Adderley Park to the city centre, led by th reciona banner or t Transpor and General Workers Union. Othe represented Pos Office Engineers. and Communist Party branches.
Later from the same assembly point, a much larger demonstration organised by the InterWorkers Association, the Socialis workers rany anca C welcome change in the attit ouThide mimingh a,o, many from From Morning Star, 28 February
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