By C Banner and J Schweik *MAGGIE OUT, Maggie chanted over a thousand steelworkers from Sheffield, Rotherham, and Shotton as they marched through the centre of Birmingham to picket Sir Keith Joseph last Friday:
The industry minister had come to meet West Midlands TUC leaders, and was visibly shaken reception by the steel strikers.
A TY interview evening showed Joseph emotional state as he lamented the inability of workers to understand the need tor his monetarist policies. If there's one thing the minister hates to have to deal with it's people. Pushed One of the pickets who had come to greet him was Karen Locker, STC member and Labour councillor from Corby. She has grasped the finer points of the Tories policies only too well. 'What we're facing is part of the Tory strategy to take on the working CASS movement,' she told Socialist Challenge.
*The government said they going to put us in our place. But if the Tories want a steel. industry, they're going to have to pay tor it.
'We've lost enough jobs,' Locker added. "They pushed us so far that now we've got no choice. We've got to fight and we've got to win.' kind of remark that makes Sir Keith despair. It just isn't the way that right-wing academics, industrialists, and the City see things. Inherited When told by Roy Bishop, ISTC's Midland divisional that the boss Corporation should be Joseph replied: I think the chairman is coping with a set of inherited problems in the way best suited to the national HALCIESL the interest, and the Out,' Corby, al - nIs broadcast that interests.
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