Port Talbot... the story runs and runs.
sive. The list of factory ves that. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
in Birmingham, in the heart of the motor industry, had already lost 3,500 jobs before the dustry, employs cople in the Midlands, has lost 8,000 jobs in the last six workers are joining the 143,500 on he dole chasing just 9,403 vacancjes.
Load There is resistance, especially when workers are given a lead any kind of lead. Workers in South Wales, for example, knew that the on the hop by the complete suport for the steel strike strike, a general strike on the jobs' issue.
Then the sell-out started action and the calling of one day's action Jaunary. although the whitit of betraval was already in the air, on 28 January response in wale was massive. The fight continues.
Hackney workers Hackney, East London, have so far successfully defied attempts to make 26 workers in the acetylene department redundant. It is no ac cident management's plans threaten the union branch Clairesol. ш vc cal person. branch secretary, shop steward and assistant convenor.
inc closure or but sacerwere department in Hackney makes no economic sense as the supplies for THREE thousand Lucas car component workers were declared redundant last week; 3,800 steelworkers at Llanwern were told they had to go the week before; and just prior to that 1,500 workers at the Talbot Linwood car plant were axed, 1,100 workers at Ford, Dagenham, were threatened with redundancy, over 5,000 steelworkers at the East London area would then have to Management is blatantly attacking best organised depot of the BOC to smash me wages This isn't just a matter of the workers in BOC tect their living standards against inflation because over the last few which established 'the going rate' in the private sector.
For trade unionists and Labour Party members the blem is that unless there is the start movement against unemployment, rank and file workers in the offices and factories will start to listen to The Tories as they repeat Jim's arguments of three years ago Caught thạt 'one man's pay rise is another man's job' (sic), and accept cuts in wages.
Defeat But it would be wrong to say But defeat ome unemployment. if i defeat the had, it would be impossible to explain the massive strike action and places like Liverpool and the whole Scotland, unemployment has been tor a deane or more unemployment becomes a disciplining force on the working class alter a major acica class as a whole in a big historic confrontation DOSses, The Minority launched in 1924 in the aftermath of a slump and wage cut wue! unemployment reach two million — a much bigger percentage of the Cardiff!
being able to proworkforce than now biggest pro membership cut by half Only after the political defeat Strike in 1926 was mass unemployment combined by with a systematic Sunny The rebuilding of unions like the South Socialists need to learn from the lessons general strike in South Wales, an he Day of Action on 14 May thi yea faced with this Tory government, workers who may be unsure «Do now to nut unemployment in their industry or May factory will respond to a call to acwhich including the private sector, only collar anons Movement was imposed Say • and union whole class in the General the employers dustries victimisation of Serenes move. the total organisational shop stewards committees, Parties. of the Minority Movepolicies to beat fighting timers for the movement back acainst fight has lobby of movemen. public and the the industrial and the united acuul For that call to be made and for • unemployment. the action to have any chance of success, there has to be an organised minority fighting in the unions which — although it will be started factories and - from the moment it is set up will reach across the barriers worker tes LIBe barriers between trades comes. and consuluce Lavou This minority will have a set of unemployment, and it the • present trade Plessey Labour ralL leadership to start now.
The call from the BOC workers for the against unemplovment in September is one way to start organising all those in movement prepared to BL Speke Jobs lost through closures and redundancies Vickers Elswick (Newcastle) Massey-Ferguson (Liverpool) Lucas (Liverpool)
Mather & Platt (Manchester)
Rosedales (South Wales)
Vickers Swindon Singers (Glasgow)
Vickers Oceanics SKF (Kilmarnock)
GKN Bolts (Darlington)
Wilkinson Sword Hoover (Glasgow)
Tress (Newcastle)
Thomas Bradford GEC (Liverpool)
Cammell Laird (Liverpool)
English Electric (Liverpool)
Glenfield & Kennedy (Kilmarnock)
Plessey (South Shields)
Plessey (Liverpool)
Babcock & Wilcox (Renfrew)
Singers (Glasgow)
Dunlop Speke Goodyear (Glasgow, British Shipbuilding (Scotland) 10,000 (27.3.80 (5.3.80 (14.12 25,000 10,000 2,000 1250 (2.6. 2,200 (6.4 (11.3.78)
3,000 1,020 1,600 2,400 1,400 (15.1.77) 3,000 (17.10.79) 15,000 (22.9.79 con top of 25,000 2,500 (7.9.79)
(20.9.79)