stewaras building and the docks. 10/64. the fightback'. argue:
are ultimately workers. PUBLIC SUPPORT for the Ford strikers continues to be displayed up and down the country.
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Challenge meetings last week on a Hull the Ford strike which attracted including shop meeting -ITOH The main speakers were Billy Ross from the Ford Workers Group, Keith Dennison, General & Municipal Workers Union Speakers convenor at Fenners Engineering, and Mike Power, a shop local steward from the Transport and General Workers Union branch tary of the Ross explained: No way are we going to abide by the 5 per cent norm. We're fighting for a t20 increase that will restore wages to the 1974 level.
Power, after saying that the Ford strike is central in leading WCnl On TO -THUSL fight to transcend all the divisions in the labour movement, particularly racism, sexism and the divisions furnaces. between higher and lower paid Power's advocation of unity was taken up by a speaker from the Black Socialist Alliance. who proposed the formation of Liaison Committee against the 5 per suggestion was agreed by the CCIIL.
HACKNEY in East London was the venue for a meeting on 23 October which attracted an audience over 100 strong.
included Joan Maynard MP; Ernie Roberts, Labour parliamentar candidate; Ray Varne: . SOLICT Inner London Education Authority distriet of NUPE; and Alex Gungi and Gordon Davy from the Ford Workers Group LEAMINGTON in the Midlands is the home of one of the fun smallest Ford plants. It has no great record for militancy, bur support for strike action among the workers has •ocen OVCI whelming - so much so that workers on the night shift walked out leaving metal in the Despite such enthusiasm the local plant leadership has made no attempı to involve the rank and file in organising the strike or the picket line. So it's been left to gthers to do the work.
Last week a public meeting organised jointly by the Socialist Workers Party and the International Marxist Group was attended by over 50 people, including about a dozen from the local plant.
BRISTOL is the venue this Thursday (2 November) for another meeting on the 5 per cent organised largely through efforts of the SWP and IMG. There will be speakers from the docks, hospitals, the Transport and General Workers Union, and local reluge workers. The meeting is at the Shepherds Hall at 7.30pm.
PEOPLE'S FESTIVAL 78 12 hours of culture, politics and children's festival/ creche Sun. 26 Nov., 1am-11pm Belle Vue, Manchester Tickets £2 - reduced for non-earners Details: 28 Hathersage Road. Manchester 13 (061-224 5378) Organised by Manchester Area CPGB
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