SUPPORT THE STEEL STRIKE wouldn't be unhappy about They would still be collecting from the taxpayers, the large majority whom happen to be working class people. So why not tell them they -have any more payments? That really would be in the interests of almost everyone.
So too is the action that is building stop the closures. capitalists who don't want steel-making capacity, working class.
If Sir Keith Joseph can ever bear: to spéak to a steelworker, ne word with Harold Watling from Shelton Barr rolling mill, who went to Birmingham to shout at the This is what he told Socialist Challenge: "The Shotton lads Joseph's got to go and the rest of the government with him Insult "The 2 per cent offer was an insult. We accepted the wage limit in the last pay round.
'Where 1 work, in the rolling shop there were six slingers. The price of our rise was three slingers down the road, and the rest of us doing double the work.
'It's got to be 20 per cent this time round, and no more redundancies.' interest of discontent'. The the the the 17201 saved.
say the strike. shorten the days of Thatcher's rule. UP TO now the daily papers have avoided the anti-union excesses of the 'wintes steel strikers every day on the front pages. If anything the popular press has preferred to relegate the strike to the inside pages rather than opting for wild union bashiag The Sunday papers are a slightly different story. The Sunday Express las weekend had a front page feature on the 'reds' behind the strike — incodi Socialist Challenge. Thanks for the compliment, but perhaps the pay offer a the steel closures have something to do with it.
Woodrow Wyatt in the Sunday Mirror has explained that the stecturert were 'committing hari-kiri' by demanding higher wages. In reas this former Labour MP and now boss of a printing fire pat ferman employers" arguments that only by cutting jobs and wages can steet It is not just a question of whether the mass media attack the stre. Ne tr is that there is no mass paper or broadcasting channel which actively supports That's where Socialist Challenge comes i. tol sympathetic coverage to the steel strikers sad tell the t industry and its bosses, but it also tries to By taking the paper out and selling it to steelworkers me ca the politics to win. By selling it to other working class people me can importance of solidarity actions to make the strike bite more Our paper is fighting alongside the steelworkers. You can make it sor effective by seizing every opportunity to sell the paper during the strike. Lest week Sheffield IMG ordered an additional five hundred copies for sale on the picket line, and Cardiff increased its order by a hundred, bumping up our prisi run. Follow their example and help to bump it up again.
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