Peace | IMGpapers 1980

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"These concessions will sides of the Corporation with the springboard from which industry into a period of profitability and prosperity.

Profitability and prosperity for whom? Certainly not for the steel towns of Corby, Consett, Shotton, Hailside, Newport. Nor for the 52,000 steelworkers and their families condemned to the dole for years, or the tens of thousands of workers in. related industries.

Sirs talks about all this being necessary. to save one of 'our' basic industries. But while the steelworkers have produced all the wealth of the steel industry they are being thrown on the scrap heap in the interests of profitability.

Basic It is not the steelworkers' industry. If it was, it would be run in their interests. The workforce would available work would be shared with no loss of pay.

Workers have economy and therefore no responsibility for the world economic crisis which is causing the worldwide cutbacks in steel production.

'We have gone as far as we possibly can in order to reach a compromise and so avoid the imminent destruction industry,' Sirs writes.

Yet it is the Tories and the BSC who are threatening to destroy the steel industry and thousands of lives with it.

What are the steelworkers being offered in return?