throughout the steel industry.
April.
Agreement on the ciosure follows one disgusting displays of selling by union bureaucrats, with workers receiving what is in cality # UTn LOE d place on the ever anoreasing ERECTETE The deal means ibar the 1,300 workers will receive in all about 610m before tax. British Stecl rockon chey will save 120m by closine the plant now rather than in 1980.
FIGURES Despite Fleer Street's much trumpeted figures of workers etting 113,000 pay offs, the will work • mQs! job between t4.000 and £6,000 And that deductions and is dependent because of Common BELCH Markel rules, or being aut of work for the next twp years.
The deal absa threatens about anather 1,000 jabs in trades WYTHET STATEL ES UURS platt. Overail it couid Blean LESL TELERIUVECILLE SILL - which is P'rine Minister Jins Callahan's will rise to abour 1t per ceor. about 20,000 workers on ibe dole.
The deal is also a major breakthrough for BSC boss Sir LarOS CS SIMONT Secretaiy Eric Varley in Thei carpaign to put as many steet workers as possible out of HOrk.
Basines: News put E: "Villiers and Varley must bave heen delighled event:"
For the closure is a key part of the plans to slash steel a committee headed by Leed UEBES Beswick in 1975 plans wuch were hitterly apposed workers al the Lime.
THIRD DEAL Torea touch by Britsh Steel H is the third closure recently, The tirst cae were a Clyde Hron in Scotland and in Hartlepco LEUEHERDISEESSUL agast a cicion recommsen### Catipn an averare 00 received compensation.
Sunday Times NEXT HIT week's Jobs pur forward by by in the Beswick reportTAE MESTIES DRIL CATC.
Jo accept a pay-off.
At Hartlepool, workers with 30 years or more service carning E77 week, pitiful 12,000 rOT aS Already BSC have appouroed their intentiont. to end Iron and Steelmeking ar Shelten : Dear Stoke, BSC plants ar Ebbe Vale and Shatten in Wales are the likely mest victims of manage ment attemptsto axe 6,000 joas as quickly as possible. All were carmarked for substantial cuts Floshed with its job slashung success, rhe corporation abso scems likely to try to go beyond working on what is dubibusly La wark micasurenacot incentive scheme". This means Chast a ten-person team coold he leld that if they get rid of three their indusiry: person's pay betweco them i a threat to all steel workers.
tisc Time Business News admits: Failure campaign to cut in its tracks ani CoM 1l 1 b9r23 19.El0m in redundancy paymentr against a t20m saving front carly closure.' The only way to stop the BSC aa l tracks and lo preveni union collaborators indagins in a mass jobs seli-out. af the expense of their metabers is to activare the local steel unica actiea committees which have existen in the past. -are CONFERENCE A Rational conference of rank and file activists would be ong way to plan the fighiback and sop steel workers paving for the crisis of capitalism n Canicy, near Cosenlry: they intend in the short teems to transfer TR7 production.
LEADERSHIP One of the major obstacles to such a united lightback is the leadership of the shop stewards committee which is onwilling o Incapable of leadine this fight he said. And Hickey concluder that these stewands must be repinced hy workers preparel to lead a fight in the factory ant HI TOE HEDE LOHERE COTEAEL •The Stondurd, Delence Cammsleg tneeis every T'ues day al 6.30pm in the Garston -EUPICI Mary's Road Gurston. Send messages of SLIPOLTE 8032 L005 etc. fo: Standard Defence Committee BOx SOC, C/o 100 White chapel, Liverpool l.
erie to Biete Eris urged ip asvite Deyland speakers co thele nett meeting comact Socialist Chullenge sor speakers. bould be the firs step towards Spek= Suppor SA Up.8 Conniee in your town, And dost torer to rish tenaris o suppor activities to the paper
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 16 March, 1978 page 5
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THE DECISION last week to accept closure of the East Moors steelworks is a bitter blow not only for workers at this Cardiff plant but also for workers MICHAELJONES explains what is still in store for steelworkers after East Moors closes at the end of