told management that any more and we're in dispute. So we're grateful for what you're doing in Greenock.' Right: in the Lee Jeans occupation.
It had been CXhausting week for the two lee Jeans women but they considered that the tour, which oraliscu Socialist Challenge, had very successful.
Everywhere tney visited, workplaces were for when the People's March for Jobs hits London.
Mary and Cathy want to be part of the Lee Jeans delegation that will lead the march on the last leg of Lee Jeans workers will be heading that march because they lead the way in the fight for jobs. Rights Against Tory received the Lee Jeans to save their jobs The rally at the end of thale of what had ran a the day was the festival and celebration of women struggling for their rights on every level.
Workshops on organiin the trade unions and cuts in the welfare state;
violence against women; on sex roles and sexuality, took place alongside exhibitions, stalls, theatre and music.
WaN hectic and and tag dada The fight for jobs was one of the most important issues raised at the Festival for Women's Attacks. Cathy Nicol longest and loudest applause when she spoke of the fight of the workers at crowded at times ÷ 2,500 people attended the festi val, the vast majority and there was almost too much to take in.
The need for women to fightback against Tory attacks which particularly affect women, was tne dominant lenie As Judy Watson, one Festival's organisers, told the rally, women were now 40 per • cent of the workforce but their wages were only 72 per cent of men's.
The fight for women's damental are the 'is fundamental fight against sexual divisions in SOCICLy.
реорк might accuse us of wanting job for women at the expense of men, but the fight for women's jobs is a vital part of the general fight against unemployment.
The rally ended with a call for the TUC and the Labour Party to organise a demonstration for woman's right to work.
The festival was an experience not to be missed It showed what women or ganised could achieve; that our strength lies in such organisation, and taking that into the labour movement whole.
gave many women an understanding that oui own concerns are not isorated trom the fightback against the Tories and the attacks on women whose choice to work, to have children and so or are gradually being eroded. best be sun ted i che Perhaps the day words of Elsie Broad, one of the strikers from Royal Pride in Salford, who has been on strike for elever weeks for union recogni'When I went on the Peele m for Royal Price ' she said 'I went on for and I didn't think about But now definitely there fightI'm ing for women's rights. Socialist Challenge 14 May 1961 Pago
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