Line unlon demands which the employers were Among these was the reduction of the working institute had 2 cul in lne working peek by just one hour would enempioyment by 300,000 Germany the - has car had one million unemployed. For the certain amount of employers was told by the man who led their offensive, a former major in the general headquarters of Hitler's "The strike is an attack must be beaten back. There must be no doubt about the determination of employers' association and its You cannot go in in a small You must do it with all the forces you have.' When employers suggested that such tactics might leac to defeat, as they had done 33 years before when . the German military tried to put them into practice, former major replied: 'It is true that we have lost the war, but we have won many battles.' Unfortunately, after which lasted six weeks, IG-Metall lost the battle for the 35-hour week. But I am sure that the working class in West Europe, wich is carrylig u the fight against unemployment, will win this war.
Strike The main reason the strike in West Germany was lost was because it was not spread to the steel plants supplying the car industry which at that time was experiencing a boom. The union leadership did not want to be held responsible for stopping the industry endangering upswing in the economy:
The union leadership showed From LCR (Luxembourg section of the Fourth Interthe national)
WIDESPREAD British steel strike is being won from strike the trade unions in Luxembourg where jobs are under the EEC's Davignon Plan to rationalise the industry The federation, the dominant in the steel industry, has sent a telegram to the British unions saying: have Luxembourg that under no circumstances will we allow Luxembourg which might sabotage aLLY delivery your action. part in further solidarity action along with the International Metalworkers Federation ...' We ourselves leaflets urging solidarity at the three Succ Dudelange).
support equally threatened initiatives important union borders OGB-L, which is through informed the our demands:
We are ready to take redundancies!
*For loss of pay, have distributed plants (Arbed-Belval, Arbed-Differdange, and ArbedWe point out that the British strike follows similar struggles luxembourg, Germany, and France, and from this we conclude: unions, shich are organised at the should demand international level, that they take which span should ourselves, our delegates, establish international contacts to organise a European steelworkers conference to prepare a general strike throughou the European steel industry to win "Down with the Davignon Plan and its hundreds of thousands of the 35-hour week without without speed-up and proportional increase employment under workers' control!
"Total solidarity with the British