discussed and agreed upon by the workforce.
More generally, what socialsk have to inseparable points.
First, that the struggle which the Biston workers Tace shows absolute Party intervention at national level, in the ISTC and TUC that it is utopian to rely on the Secretary union bureaucracies to produce the proposals that are needed if they are left 10 the BUSINES What is needed achieve rank-and-hile bilates Interventions at national level. The Buston struggle raises a series of questions are (mis)managod and the issue nE workers control produced, and B very important.
CONTROL need for private Secondly workers control.
their oWn -no matter to combine abour the event of closure.
enterprises perfect economic skulünggery, the whole purpose It should be taken up within the broader framework of a demand for the nationalisation Workers -steel and the meeting re-organisation of BSC under Thornelt Bilston's fate illustrates the Cowley plant. irrationality and inefficiency of the present management patlern, even in canilalist terms.
The Action Committee has calculated, for example, that musing the E13m investment it is calling sleware consultation than the expenses the governAnd the closure of the blast written by furnace Elizabeth, which took place at the end of last year, is n Secretary illustration of Since tive Group. this mandeuvre was to push Bilson The Bilson issue makes in Clear that the problem can be solved caly at national level, THE REGIONAL. Committee of the Transport and General TOLER to consider the so-called charges against Allam Fund eight other chewurts al Balist Levand's But new evidence has clearly established that the campaigo Thornett as a senior conducted with the leadership of the TOWU The information is containec in a letter dated 7 April 1978 Leyland management to G Hawley, National the TGWU/ Vehicle Building and Automo In this letter the company's director of personnel and administration writes:
*It was our clear understand ing, as 1 recorded in my letter co Moss Evans dated 5 June 1974 concerning A. Thorner, that the TOWU was no longer questioning that Mr Thornett would not under any circumstances be granted facilitics co act as a sebior steward, deputy senior steward or in any similar capacity at Cowicy Assemol Plant.
This letter proves beyond any doubt that as early as 1974 thi leadership of the TGWU was attempting with management to deny Cowley worker the right determine their representatives. shop officials have refused to