THE Gardner's strikers are working hard to UcL oue oorc. inay ve sont cereda.
Tons Liverpool, Huddersfield, Accrington _ondón lasgow Edinburgh, and Invitations are flooding in for Gardner's speakers They alroady visited local factories like Adam.
, LanKEO nioriae, Massoy's and GEC. Support Convenor Tom MacafSocialist TA8 ToHo Challenge: 'I'm expecting tremendous support decause people S68 wat Thany said "Enough is enough" and taken some action sent [æ from the Joint Shop Stewards Com. MILOe :no wi oe reviewing their donation weekly. Lambeth Trades Council who sponsoring week 's conference against uie wowy cuts, nave backed ue occuoaton , along with other local unions.
The Huddersfield been Grbal. I V0 local CouncH •acker the NICOLIVES colecalod collected f50 for the occupaAt the bus garage, the TGWU has organised supcollections: huddersiero •ranch sent a teleoram ano donation, and the AUW district committee given its support Fifty-five JOU IE tended Socialist Challen t. MonCHeSe last week organise solidarity shop the lant captaliod the Gardner s WOrKerS CASe.I Ron Thompson convenor from JS Neils ii Sheffield political significance of the arauc s occupation Sponsored The meeting sponsored eleven Gardner's workers to attend the CND demonstration. West, ecretary Stockport Boilermakers branch, who chatreo te meeting, said: 'We're sponsoring them so that the' case WOFKOS Messages of support and donations to: Dave Treasurer CSEU trike 187 Barton Lane, M30 OMN. Tel 061-789 2202.
yOur organisauon asre, glous aori ad wea tion, give us a ring and number THE Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineer Which UnIonS LISTIICT CoverS The l Mannester area. is organising emergency shop WORKERS at the cupied Gardner's plant in Manchester week management ahead and delivered 590 redundancy notices.
Tom Macafee, Gardner's converor. predicted move the day before. 'They won't Socialist Challenge 'In fact the biggest problem is finding a peace loruula allows management back into plant!
The Gardner's popular around CeCIC.
waete lust of the workers live i ms is desote mne ettorts ot the local newspaper, the Eccles Journal. This rag everything in its power to boost local manage. ment. Press In a front page article on 23 October the Journal attacked the occimanon. Witn the headline 'No time for dominoes' cre con Dado lone onea ging Brian Davies, manağuls director ulO!. casc few paragraphs, buried away in its inside pages A community support cupation has been set up in the Eccles area.
Jvl salsul, blacucal dd Unc ol Is Hst oos w e co oe out the truth about the workers case hat.
the local even begin to understand is that WULKCIS. inrougn uren acTon. can challenge status quo and even defeat it.
that occupying workers, fighting battle to save their jobs, are main- ucclalc concernca wilk commoes snows tne contempt in wnich the press views ordinary people The workers keep a picket or the gate; not that there is any amone rank Tile engineering workers. The will held early in Novembe Socialist Challenge supporters will be arquina tor ue Loneo ro oroanice a march from Gardner's to Liverpool осare went Paula Walton 'SOME of us just tried to get together to explain the situation properly to this told senior Janet Brightman, 'SO FAR we've acted as if the situation of mass unemployment was inevitable. Gardner's beginning fight Mrs J Adams 'MY husband's on sit-in strike. As a wife | am finding it as difficult as the other daughgor. if the redan l've got son and dancies go through won't get here. any there's always ship. That's they used to get men back to work. im behind my husband and not the management. the likelihood of scabbing, they are more worried about creeping back into the plant.
During year's
strike ulylll, al cacculve in tile acoartme roraot ais colt clune He's trying get back all the women involved.
Otherwise they
know. reading in the papers.' jobs. We're not just talk. ing about workers, but jobs overvone the dole, especially the for people.
It's very hard when you've got no money, to realise what you've got to do. But if you go back women.
La century it was much and harder.
Women were force my fed when they met to job get the vote. Women on their own are under a lot of pressure but as they hard- "a trouble shared is way trouble halved".
the the should get involved and SU ••On husbands.
time, too managers the rain pours down. Jan and ale Lakele national makesmt sneuer tion drifts from the fight against saue. redundancy Vestey's the Polish events; and the need for many more occupations government to its knees.
This isn't the decided that have decided enough and only something about it. they're Network Dominoes is item discussion transport and finance committe Iccullss CInCI country the occupation commit. tee are building a movement of Gardners suppory are aot uris.
for boy network young the sullalil!
Irom ouner workme Deobe. strength is in the organisation of working are impressive occupator has organised cvery va r ue connav. trip heir oreganion toe sue CND Their delegation to the demonstratior Mancheste amanded "Job Through their own experiences the Gardner's system thai millons on nuclear weapons thar on oos. nouses. ano scnools Victory wives The Gardner's workers show the wav tor al of us to their Ine victory the of the engineers show that the tide is turhing agalnst une t orle.
The leadership of the labour movement has abemployed The conversa- make LUC Gardner's the main issue in the fight gainst une … orles tax Everyone should demand that these leaders act now.
talk of two Enough al C the main the ACrOS isad they rely the 'old alIL suppor une people acting together committee solidarity LINOS Bach Socialist Cha Challenge CHOL Domos workers madnes would rather spenc і тоно of the dockers and Gardner's • tIle DOWCI Le occupatol By Pat Hickey ner's set up received wide Gardner's women on the march TGWU shop steward, Rover SD1 A SUPPORT committee for GardBirmingham has support from the labour movement in the area In a statement the committee says: 'We in the West Midlands are only too well aware
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Support across the
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Shop stewards to discuss solidarity with Gardner's
support the Gardner's sit~ in
Birmingham — Transport and unions join in