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at 15a, painters, carpenters, depot - street cleaners.
council North St depot and to tina oul the women themselves. 15 and 52). Followed 24 Powis to be missed, rarely 14 December, women's union, every Sat., General prepared 10 .30, Sun 10.30-12.00 council which has been in the forefront of + has a healthy of tree surgeons, and - at the council's North Street There is just one problem. The is proposing close the disperse the women street cleaners to other depots in the south-west London borough, in spite of strenuous resistance to this by Their objections relate to general needs of women workers, and the fact that both the Labour council and the Ine Iransport and Workers' Union, are override these needs great. deal about the problems that women commonly face at There are several reasons why the women at North St depot wish to continue to be based there. moving to the other predominantly male depots would take a number of the women further from their home, which with childeare problems would put in doubt their ability to continue This problem could be overcome if nurseries facilities were available, resistance to the Tory cuts, it shelved a plan to extend child-care proyision in Difficult The women street cleaners have a further reason for wanting to remain at their depot, which has extremely difficult for them to fight the issue within their union.
They consider that being together North St has reinforced confidence about doing a traditional male job, and strengthened ability to confront hostility WiCH Unfortunately, hostility has come from the depots to which the council is proposing to more the women next month.
Reactionary against the employment of women in manual jobs, and their reactionary DISCIEL view on this issue coincides with their racist attitudes. Several of the women street cleaners are black.
that if they are split up there will be no effective voice within their negotiations with management. made it As if all this wasn't the women at the North St depot were suspended from work for six days on November, management announced the proposed closure of the depot. their much of this office.
A number of the men have spoken not to take inter-union However, Not surprisingly, the women fear TGWU branch or in bad enough, Trainee day that Socialist The reason for the suspension was that the women's shop steward had informed management that several of the women had threatened to ring the wives of councillors saying that the had slept with women in the depot. A council inquiry failed to offer any evidence that such threats had beer made. The shop steward resigned her , Lambeth Trades Council discussed the dispute last week, but decided action because of the problems involved. general management committee of Norwood Labour Party is now looking into the issue Offers of help to Jean Mackenzie. c/o Socialist Challenge, PO Box 50. London N1 2XP.
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exploitation and repression.
A socialist society would have to overcome both these fundamental features of capitalism.
requirement for society which is free from exploitation and repression is the abolition of all forms of oppressive and debilitating work. The drudgery of eight or more hours of daily work is the way that the working class under physically and mentally ground down. horizons are stunted.
Even when developing made?
capitalism of raw consumer The technology and by function? First, all members of society would be entitled to a share of the products of society.
total however, at first the production of goods will not be limitless. Therefore decisions will have to he made about the allocation of society's products. But HOW will these decisions be This is where the question of democratic councils open to all citizens comes in. Under focal areas, and in le automation, basis. Overall decisions from the councils.
passage. the members of society. These would be based on period before total automation was reached on workplaces. The would be federated on a local and national would he fore. national and international bodies of delegate.
Many people find it difficult to conceive ol a society in which work was abolished. In fact, it won't be. As Marx pointed out in & famous Critique of the Gotha