BILL Sirs placards in Hyde Park just before the start of the demenstration last Sunday. He wrote: 'Good luck, Bill This leadership, mented a group of steelworkers, 'we'll need it.' After 11 weeks of non-leadership, Sirs has hatched a sell-out.
Appearing on the front page of the latest reasonable compromise deadlock' is a set of proposals which would wreck workers more effectively than the frontal assault by the Tories has managed to do.
*Practically all the important principals demanded the are poo ges conceded,' *It will not be easy for us, continues under the sub-heading 'sacrificial path'. It customs and habits. It will mean negotiating away many jobs...
autographing comBanner under the title *A end the organisation of steelthe Corporation have been the article surrendering many provide both can launch the peace, growth, grate coll Port Talbot, kept and the union control over the forward the of • a basic Noug TRON вОД LADY Apart from the fact that it is a blank cheque for job cuts — 'We accept that these deals shall be self-financing and shall fund a proportion the award' — the claim is 15 per cent for 15 It is already 13 months since the last pay deal, since when inflation has risen by over 20 per cent.
Sirs knows this. That's why he's put together the iron and steel coordinating committee the backs constituted negotiated structures of the union. It is a blatant attempt to coerce the democratic structure of the negotiating committee, which threw out the last offer after only 20 minutes.
The conference last week of the steel negotiating washout. Brian Molyneux, a member of the Torial gorating compose says he por various proposals withdrawal of safety cover; tightening up of private sector; contacting • industrial sectors to strengthen picketing.
'In my naivety, I thought it was conference to strengthen the strike. Their reaction was: "This idiot seems to think there's a strike going on"!
The unofficial national strike committee which met last Friday has national rally of steelworkers and organise this itself necessary. committee needs to organise action against THE Steel Corporation MM major focuses. national lobby of the ISTC DOUSLY stockholders.
OI national Movement was stop the movement of steel.
other union offices to cross the picket lines.
threatened. called for will The unemployment march.
should make a profit in 1980/1. The present round of closures involving 52,000 ' are a conse quence of this policy.
But evidenily this does not go far enough for the government. Having handed out hundreds of millions or pounds In tax cuts to lili rich, it is now looking to the nationalised steel sector and other public expendidisposal Josenh says: On disposals the government are anxious that proceeds should be avala ble to contribute to Then target of by this means PSBR (public sector borrowing requirement) by a total the sell-out by co-ordinating the efforts of all the local strike committees around two There has to be the biggest possible mass national negotiating delegate meeting which considers any deal arising from this week's negotiations.
Secondly, the strike needs a national picketing focus to regain the initiative for the rank and file. This should be a big target in manufacturing industry to be picketed 24 hours a day, seven days a week Too much steel has come through the ports and private suppliers to choke off simply by pickets on the steel New steel must be stopped going in and finished products coming out. The car industry, large scale engineering firms, and North Sea oil production should be hit.
To make this picketing successful, the TGWU and other transport unions must be forced to respect steelworkers' pickets and Pickets should be placed on regional demanding clear written instructions to transport union members not The fight for 20 per cent and no strings is also a fight to keep the 52,000 jobs that are The national strike committee should_aim to maintain the strike until all jobs are guaranteed. And it should support initiatives such as the South Wales youth million."
T's prosperous private steel sector, leeched the Steel the partial nationalisation the industry by the 1964-70 wel comes a hiving off operation so that state-financed boost to its profits Joseph's letter goes on to suggest that pari of the proceeds of hiving off assets to meet reden. dancy payments in the firs hall of 1960/01. the workers who created the industrs should now accept the dole laYS queue-in return for boosting private sector profits , while exposes the industry to thi capitalis market.
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