I have never known such venom against any politician as the Welsh people feel for Sir Keith, said John Carberry, chairperson of Port Talbot steel workers" strike committee.
wasn't joking.
Outside factories Joseph was pelted with eggs and workers. Lucky for him that eventually turned tail and fled Wales.
It's not surprising he nearly lynched.
WES Thanks to the Tories policies there will he minimum of 42,000 redundancies in steel, mining and related industries in Wales. The knock-on effects in service industries will push that figure up to over 80,000. If the Tories get away with it in South Wales, hundreds thousands of jobs will be laid waste throughout the rest of Britain.
I ne Wales TUC was forced to take drastic action. First they called for a general strike in the region from 21 January. But they caved in to pressure from the British TUC who were more concerned about trying to head off a potential general strike movement than workers' jobs.
The fact that such a movement is developing was proved on 28 January 200,000 workers stopped work in mighty display of anger and power. A week later miners' leader Emlyn Williams called for all-out action to kick out the Tories. He said:
If the working class movement in this country decides to fight together nobody can stop us He's right. But the Tory war machine is now lumbering on from South Wales:
*50,000 workers have been laid off in British Leyland. This is a lock-out workers by the bosses to prevent action on the Leyland workers' pay claim or in defence of Derek Robinson, the sacked Longbridge convenor.
*The Tory budget next month aims to slash our social services to the bone.
*New anti-union laws aim to cripple effective шаас unon acuon. Inal means stopping our ability to stop real wages falling, to tient against the cuts and for jobs.
All the separate strug. gles need to be fused together. The TUC should call a general strike to halt the Tory offensive. And that means kicking out the Tories. Let those who work, on the shop floor of Leyland now