THE DEMONSTRATION is a good idea we've got to show what we feel. We can't just sit ing faster than men's, we've got to fight.
In this day and age, people have to go out to work in the lamily. We don't go out to work for pin money HELO Nobody should be losing their jobs -In our struggle at Lee Jeans, we were women fighting for jobs for everyone.
At first we weren't taken seriously people were surprised it was women. But in the end they were saying: It was MY CLICIE showed men how to fight."
Chief Steward, NUTGWU, Lee Jeans, Greenock Socialist Challenge 3 December 1981 Do the job I'm and San owe wil never be IrOm •MILK OF MAGNESIA' I THINK THE DEMONSTRATION is really important. It's often left up to women to fight anyway -not just on women's rights but against unemployment as a whole.
IL's bout Photo: GRAHAM COOKSON Labour arty got its finger out and started organising.
ELSIE BROAD FTAT and Royal Pride Strike ComPhoto: JUDE WOODWARD THERE IS A NEED to focus attention rate at which women are losing their jobs fulltime. to work if they wish and a very large proportion must work to supplement a family income. ed to give up jobs to take over care of the elderly, the sick and the handicapped because this support is being the Tories.
concentrating would highlight the and bring ions of the labour movement JO RICHARDSON MP page 8.
time the Manchester because first. on the accelerazing both part-time and Women have a right And women are being forccut by the A national event next year, on this issuc, PrODICH support from all sec I PERSONALLY SUPPORT the demonstration and so does the Labour Group on the GL.C I think women should take action against unemployment hitting women harder. And there is still an attitude that women should go I went down to the Hoover factory and some people there do think that women should go first. I think this is deplorable - women must organise — we can't allow men to say this.
The march is a way of doing this and of bringing attention to the issue.
VALERIE WISE, GLC Councillor.
1 think women have as much right to a job as a man. should stay at home good sayıng women LIE I001 after the kids → men have got kids as well — we don't go out and buy them in a super market!
I think the Woman's Right to Work march is important to point this out.
ELAINE CROSS Laurence Scott Strike Ctte ed to set the ball rolling.
YVONNE Why do you think the Labour Party stand on the issue of women's unemployment by calling for an event focussing on this issue?
JUDY: I think their decision reflects the impact of women's struggles over the past few years on the labour movement as a whole The against Corrie which was organised by the TUC in 1979 signalled that the labour movement prepared to begin to take a stand on women's issues.
It's really opened up the door now so that we can pressurise the movement as a whole to fight around all rights.
Is the type of national event the Labour Party is planning what you envisaged?
ELLY: The Labour Party is planThe Labour Party has agreed to organise a national event on A Woman's Right to Work on June 5, 1982. The proposal to hold a national demonstration on the theme of a Woman's Right to Work came out of the Festival for Women's Rights Against Tory Attacks held in May this year. Women decided to call upon the Labour Party and the TUC to organise the demonstration and an Action Committee was formTAYLOR talked to Challenge supporters JUDY WATSON GORDON, who are members of the Action Committee, about the plans for the demonstration.
festival. has agreed to take a The on this. demonstration was the event?
begin to working class focus aspects of women's rights.
THE LIFE AND TI ROSIE THE RIVETEF which could usefully for conferences and on women and ment. It's a new film being shown in En the first time. GEOF RATT went to see it.
THIS is a lively film whic major contribution that American women made to effort by working in mu tories and shipyards.
And it tells how they ed by being eased out, two Socialist and ELLY ning, at this stage, to hold They see the event more of an enjoyable occasio Action Committee h always wanted a demonstratio We want the largest demonstr tion on women's rights ever. O viously this could feed into festival in one of the major par in London and we hope we c change the Labour Party's mi What do you think is going be the major political focus JUDY: There's quite a big chan that the Labour Party will want on the Alternati Economic Strategy (AES) a what there is in that for womer Within the Action Cor mittee, some of us are not ve happy with this.
We think that any national a tivity on women's rights at t present time should highlight t way women are being attack
rroW home and babies, when the conquering male heroes returned to civilian The film consists of extracts from March Time alternating with the reminiscences of black and white women who tell what it was really like to work as a riveter or The women say how enjoyed the companionship and sense of achievement of working in industry compared with the low-paid, isolated and monotonous jobs they had earlier held ine afteriasion de meste erice. media is illustrated by which, at the start of the war, show today fired day tories.
and other newsreels.
woman tells bow much they racist with LAC SORGETILy The Life and the newsreels the Other London WI. pictures of happy children taken care while their patriotic mothers work in the facAt the end of the war they em phasise 'eight-hour orphans' who are neglected because their irresponsible mothers are out working in the factories. The women have done what they were required to do and must now vacate their jobs to make way for One vivid incident is when a black enraged the brutal treatment of a Filipino by a racist naval officer, she threatens the her burner Name and escapes disciplinary action because of of her workmates 10 December and can be hired from Cinema, 79 Wardour St,
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