Bill Sirs, the ISTC general secretary, got it right when he said that the government was to blame for the arson attack for "leading people to believe that we are evil when we are only trying to find a reasonable way to get our just demands'.
sane Tories aren't having an easy time of it.
The steelworkers won't lie down and keep quiet they won't accept Sir Keith Joseph's argument that the best way to save jobs is to sell them; they won't accept Sir Charles Villiers' argument that the best way to get more money is to ask for less. Arms And it's not just the Across the country members of every trade union are up in arms against the government's assault on living standards. Women blacks are determined to detend themselves against the attacks on their rights the Tories are preparing to unleash.
The working class of this the move, united against the Tories. Working people will not pay the price for the bosses' crisis.
It is this unity that the Tories are out to smash. They aim to stir up feeling against the steel striker to set private sector workers against those in the public sector, farm workers against industrial workers, male workers against women. Fuss And Prior's proposed laws dI C part of this But these proposals will not simply slip through without anyone making a fuss about it.
The TUC has already called a demonstration for 9 March and a day of Their law and order means intimidation for the working class and a free rein for the bosses.
And what about une bosses? Aren't they above the law? They can chop jobs, slash pay, carve up industry, invest or not WIVESE where they want, sack workers they don't like (as Derek Robinson) and does not touch them.
Thatcher, husband of Margaret, managing director of company manuacturing the cancer forming chemical 2,4,5-T. Where is the law to stop him?
Prior's law means law and order alright - a fist to punch the working class and a helping hand for the Villiers, Edwardes, Thatchers and Josephs to do whatever they like.
Prior's mis-named Bill will такс secondary pickeum: illegal ane prevent solidarity action directly involved in a strike. But it's collective action and solidarity which allow the working Class to defend itself against the bosses attacks.
Our reply to the Tory intimidators quite simple step the CUD secondary pickets, build solidarity action with the steel strike, and make 9 March a really enormous show of strength against the Tories' plans.
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