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ocialist Challenge 4 Saptamber 1982 page 2 seraTs friends. When it of the mass Called by an organisation of the Pardiscipline following The first thing the Conference should do is If the NEC moves to expel they barons, there will By Martin Ahmet Bristol West LPYS MANAGEMENT'S CARS WERE blocked in, and their offices occupied, after Langston Miachine Company. were told that the works were to close with the axeing of 320 jobs by them downing tools. Langston, part of the Mullings Multinational, Was Thrissell last year when 330 jobs were lost as part of their so-called rationalisation process. A few years 9,20 the plant employed a work force of just over WOEK convenor, told Chaente We Ve agreed to the redundancies formally registered our failure to agreement. Our tirst move has been to contact other works the CunDally The plant at Peterborough will boycott any transfer of our work. We're arranging factory visits Willin the : group stage. The unions involvthe aCLIUl are the AUEW, TASS. APEX and EEPTU Management's offer of transferring 60 of the 380 Challenge, a committed socialist who work. Robbie was a Pd closely with all those who supported the causes he fervently believed in.
defend the health service and the cause of Irish Liberation were particularly dear to him.
He was a dedicated nurse and shop steward.
WOrKTCLOS PCnOe People he cared for. We cannot believ nis death and the forthcoming closure of his workplace -connected Robbie was a comrade.
Danny Miles for Colchester SWP the work-force ot caston Bristol Their actions have been followed up as Masson Scott known workforce has also been rejected by the joint stewaras comnmutice Langston makes machines for producing types of cardYaLIOUS board. Bristol has a tradition of being a centre for the industry going PapvL back into the last century.
Within the past tew year maSSVe job losse and works closures have been the pattern in this industry as the world recession has bitten deeper. ycal over 900 jobs were permanently closure of -IUSI St. Anne's Broadmills, of the Robbie took his own life on Monday 19 Jusupporter Socialist The fight t He was loved and respected equally by his mentally handicapped that Essex Hall Hospital - are undear friend and He will be missed by us all. largest local employers in the paper industry. If these OSSCS will be one more step in the destruction of one of the largest combined sources of employment in the area.
Particularly hard hit will be the youth, as more and more job opportunities disappear, taking with them the traditional forms of apprenticeships and job training. If the 320 jobs are lost without Chis will stell fight then the local jobless total of 46,416 that includes over 4,600 youth alone.
These figures represent the ment experien cede by oye experienced by HILCTIE South West. Redundancies mean long term job losses and youth opportunities, coupled the break up of working class communities Some of the workforce were encouraged by the fight of the mainly women * Ernest Mandel on 'Socialist Democracv' * John Harrison on 'Economic Crisis" * John Ross on 'Break-Up of British Politics' Langston convenor Pat Keane workforce hamou Names during their several week strike that ended in success, here in Bristol.
Socialist Challenge and Revolution supporters will Easton, Bristol.
'Debating Socialism'
Weekend October 23/24 Central London venue Bea Campbell & Val Coultas debate'Sweet Freedom" * Ken Livingstone, Frances Morrell & Alan Freeman debate 'The New Labour Left' Mike Davis on 'Exterminism & the Cold War"
* Bernadette MeAliskey & Perry Anderson also invited Tickets: Just f4 for whole wcekend, £2.50 per day. Creche provided.
Write to: International •Debating Socialism'. PO Box 50, London NI 2XP Mark the date in your diary now - 23/24 October!
be preparing a solidarity campaign for the defence of jobs at Langston and elsewhere Bristol/Avon. Letters and messages uf support to:
Pat Keane, Langston Machine Company, Stapleton Road,
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An obituary for Robbie Stoddart