Michael Edwardes.
Capitalism ment that has concerned Thatcher's backers in big business has been the leftward shift in open defence the human cost, stakes higher and higher for many thousands et working class neonle It was this House, ing to in his indirect attacks on Thatcher's type of retoric when he pleaded for a return to 'traditional Tory social concerns'. He was Labour Party is not because big business expects that a future Labour government will act to abolish capitalism. But 'captains of industry" are aware of the expectations which are constantly being raised in the steel works, the mines and the railways that the Labour Party will support their resistance to the Tory attacks, and will introduce a programme in government to reverse the effects of the Tory ravages. But perhaps the most dangerous developThatcher's constant and of capitalism and profits, has raised the danger that Leader of the Norman St John-Stevas, was referrThe concern over the shift to the left in the speaking just before the which voted for a return to work last Sunday morning. Riot He added: We know that an inquiry could bẹ vay of sabotaging the strike and of making sure thal • L11C CHIS Or ult • 0 V management will be able to get away with whatever it wants on this question:
According BL ed were the ringleaders of a riot which took angered at lay-offs narched through Dal LA CULC Ly and causing damage to cars and equipment. Revolt That there was a sponLaCON outburst of on 21 November in:
The reason for the revolt can be found in wha IS KiW newarcas La 92-page document considered by the workforce to bea saven ch charter .CxOlaS: 'There . ocen COnsacrame resistance lo the Longbridge ticularly in CAB 1, the tion where we have been having a runnigg battle over manp ,, them of the mass meeting levels, mobility of appalling conditions in that labour, :alu "LIC • genem" are What has under pinne the 30 per cent rise All aFi ductivity over the pas «c „e nemos or the Ho wardes plan - the assault cn toong standards WULK wolluilns .arla OrLanSaOn. And management still wants more Bv n they na banal Press which fully packs nas "hinted al lis of the COSOC!
CAD i. Ine wally atar, lor called it a Tiot The immediate causes of the revolt were lay-offs and :disappearing signing the 6:8 per cent pay WilR management rise which amounts to per cent cut in real wages Management used Hieressive standaar justice in the inquiry which resulted ackings Evidence was submitted b JO CONIM CRAIÁAD , managers, Jim Denham visors, or foremen.
One of the stewards was dismissed for holding an unworkers not fo cause necessary damage and te behave in an orderly stewards ICO OISE •sackings Dy union officiat:
Revert level has been disastrous. Despite a spon taneous walkou nightshift CAB the works cultfile Tauee fe Jut soumao itACJO1 Ier: did not even bother to convene the joint shop stewards When dismissals welt confirmed occcioer :GAB again Wa kec. out and this probably decisive in winning official backing dispute from the TGWU.
Meanwhile managemen •- D U-E S ke orerkın operation into top gear, the • media disastrous the strike was for the Metro Jim Denham. says: 'BI management knows that if it takes called the edge of the precipice alle SnoW Len over ine eoce what h would mean it the closed Leyland down they know that the of ficials would toc frightened to make a lighi alty wulfil? WILEIC Weme s ow ave •220 just about enough of that kind of treatment.
Denham we lose this fight it will have avery demoralising chieti on ne igal over all the Or questions in BI It will also be a blow to. the shop stewards organisaA lot of stewards will frightened i brent did soeras whole areas of the factory where no one is even willing. to take a stewards job the company dismissed was sas ard: y recan do sese shop people • suen • Tumsv cvitescr and trumped UD charges, , we can do you on almos wherevei get avas)
They are throwing down the gauntlet to the whole Shop stewards movement
----- pull-quotes -----
NONE of those dismissed, says Jim Denham, Longbridge workers sacked over the revolt on 21 November, 'has any illu- sions or enthusiasm about an inquiry of any sort, even though we are not afraid of an inquiry
eight Denham, who is a shop steward, was
ner. hayed the sathe role