chester on the journey down Sunday's unemployment tion in Birmingham.
women, mainly working men to women machines were the men that they everyone's jobs. every bit as vital as the men's. BERYL HAYMAN (APEX): In the papers you only hear vi men out ol work. They never mention women. I'd ike a tew the perks that men get. But I don't want to be a man.
Younger women today won't put up with what we did.
JOAN DRABBLE (APEX): Twenty years ago Women strikers from Laurence Scotts who have been on strike for 22 weeks talked to LAURA and JUDE from Manto demonstraOut of a workforce of 650, there are on the shopfloor. In recent years the ratio of has increased at Women were not replaced as new introduced. The women on strike are as determined as are fighting for Their right to work is not so many women went WOrK Nowadays lots of women WUL A Women have to survive.
We are as much entitled to a job as any man. If a young woman makes it a: engineer makes headline news.
It'll be a long time before we get equality. They still think you're just there just to brew up and all that. A man comes to you and says, I've no button on mv shirt.
Well. my attitude is that there's a needle and cotton and he can sew it Any woman who wants to be like a man has no ambition.
ELAINE CROSS (TASS steward): My pretty strong on women's There Is a lAS school for women on women HORES. was one of the first unions to go in for equal pay.
We went down to the House of Commons at the time to lobby for the Equal Pay Act. didn't get equal pay in LSE until 29 December 1975.
BERYL: They the men's jobs different titles. I took my case to arbitration to They grade to keep me quiet. They say men 'specialising'. The Equal Pay Act has made no difact of our time.
'They are sacrificing the health and hopes of millions on the altar ot crank coloniu abstractions that defy the laws of simple arithmetic and dismay even their friends on Wall Street, ' he said.
Representatives of civil rights and women's groups echoed the labour movement's warnings. Boots 'We're saying to those W70O have $1000 boots, while our children have no shoes, well, no, we won't take that, declared spokesperson lor the Na tional Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.
Heraid Tribune reported that the march was inspired by the WUIKCES struggles in Thousands of chers wore garments with illai. LINDA MARTIN (APEX): Part of my job involves. 'chasing'. It means I have to go onto the shop floor a lot. When I go down there I get lots of cracks about chatting the fellas up and that I'm not really there doing my job. Men never get any of that and they do far more messing.
BERYL: At the moment peopic over are bran washed into 'his' and 'her' tvpe lobs YOU start training girls for boys there i go lalking about 'men's' jobs!
Women are more selfsacriticing, they everything, work harder and unvolved more militant if you like. Not aggro but stronger.
JOAN: Women sit much ng on he picker bue. and turn up regularly.
LINDA: Being the girls from work on things like this demo, makes you feel strong.
the Solidarnose emblem and carried placards praising the Polish workers.
demonstration was the latest in a series of local and national protests against the policies of the Reagin adminstration.
Uniied Mine Workers brought thousands to La Black Lung march last spring; in 20,000 protested government Dorices. there have been the Harrisburg nuclear presis and anti-war march in May along Witt in G Martin Luther King : Day demonIn speech clearly showing the opposition of the labour movement to Reagan, the president of America said: 'We did not choose this battle.
'It was thrust upon us by President i candl president who claims to