'We will not allow BSC to close Consett

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under which Petr Uhl and the other Charter 77 civil rights. campaigners are being held in Czechoslovak prisons.

Signatories to the petition include Mick residenl Council and a Communist Party member; Pat Ward, the well wateral Union delegate Jack Kirk and Alan Thornett from Transport Workers Union.

hoped that the of Peter Moss, the enoure National Union of Teachers' delegate and also & Labour by other councillors from the abour Oxford.

the coming weeks to state they on this issue.

If trades councis other labour movement bodies wanted to push the forward eYeI further, they could make e towards THE 'Consett Crusader' train brought around thousand together with women and young people Durham to Wednesday of last week. They came to lobby their MPs against the planned closure of their steelworks.

Over 3,700 steel jobs are immediately at risk in Durham, but as in all steel towns every other 1,000 jobs are at stape There are no other unemployment rate in the area is already 13.8 per LEt stee works become 40 per cent. Just now vacancies.

directly coalfield.

London on Unless jobs to go The cosed the ligure will people ale chasing each vacancy. This month 1,400 school students will be chasing a grand total of eight As in South Wales, the Consett closure would threaten 10,000 jobs the Seaham, Blackhall, Dawdon and Wasington. pits risk "diC As John Lee, Secretary of the Consett Joint Union Co-ordinating Committee, The fight at Consett is a turning point in the fight against the tremendous attack on jobs and 'We will not allow BSC to close this works.

someone wins the eve become a rev ver cv Unfortunately the • basis on campaign is presently being fought does not fight across the region.

Durham The argument that the union Horden, and therefore should be saved.

But to successfully told Socialist arguments and learn Corby, Warrinton and the and Port Talbot.

against this million against the closure, which the agalist ail ciosures. retect the wilineness or me rank ane me wage a militant fight, or the possibilities of using the fight at Consett as the spearhead of a united committee put to MPs was that the Consett works is profitable oppose the closure, the union leadership will need to ditch al viabiiti the lessons of Shotton, 'slimline' at Llanwern Plans should be made now for full discussion with the workforce for the occupation of Consett ana to use the works as a base to mobilise mass support from the region They should consider, too, a national steel strike Advertisment