workers fight.
workers were sold out. Leyland workers against the 92-page 'slaves charter' being introduced by BL management. Last week 18,000 BL workers came out on strike, determined to throw back the offensive which has been waged against them by Edwardes for 18 months.
The strike started not on the initiative of the union leaders, but as a result of the lead given by the most militant factories. But then it was all thrown away. Transport union leader Moss Evans stabbed them in the back, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
BL threatened to sack all the striking workers. But there was never any chance that this threat would be carried through. This threat was just a last desperate gamble by Edwardes. If his bluff has been called, it would have opened a new chapter in the Leyland When jobs are lost at Leyland, working conditions worsened, wages reduced and stewards victimised, let no one doubt who is responsible - Moss Evans, who ensured a famous victory was turned into a bitter defeat. Read pages 3 and 4 on how the Leyland
OUR POLICIES workers