IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Gardner's women say - 'Enough is Enough'

· Socialist Challenge No. 168, 16 October 1980 · pp. 3-4 of the scan · 166 words

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GARDNER's workers are organising local women affected the strike. Deputy Margaret Hulme, Challenge of two women workers who had sat up all night by their machines at the start of the occupation:

'Nobody was going to take away living Despite sacrifices, women at Gardner's back the action one hundred per cent.

They have produced a leaflet for local women. The press and management use the isolation of wives in the home to divide and break Gardner's don't want this to happen. Their leaflet points out:

'We've all watched as factory after factory, hospital after hospital, school after school have cut back, cut down or closed altogether. crossed our fingers so it wouldn't happen here. Wall now it has.

'The press talk about redundancies as cold statistics. We know different.

are our husbands, now brothers, daughters. told Socialist school leavers chasing five jobs.

and the newspapers actly is going on.

strikes. organising. a community.

Supporters And we've all fathers, on 061-224 0498.

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Defeating

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