Pensioners shout out 'Pension off Maggie! jobs. won in the streets of Britain, he told the jubilant crowd.
The demonstration which greeted the People's Marchers was OVCIwhelming most enormous gathering since the rally against the Industrial Relations Act in 1972 reaching 150,000 at its peak, simply because every group of workers which has attempted to stand up monetarism was there, , but because the climax of the march showed that a mass movement can be built down the government. However, the ›00 marchers still retur home this week without the send-off in Liverpool. We had demanded that the march went to people struggle, like the UG Glass factory Peasley, Helens, the Laurence Scott workers in occupation at Manchester to give them full support.
We, the marchers, had said that we wanted those get employment or our platforms, such as the Ansells workers who had been locked out in their fight to protect jobs, and Hattersley and Dennis Healey wao woen m Dower our sued policies which cut jobs.
The crowd warmed to the Marchers' view. Denis Healey rightly got a rough ride in Hyde Park as had koy Hattersley in Birmingham.
The the North-west, the Midlands, clear when he pointed out the differential effects of the recession on the two classes in Britain.
"There'll be sion on 29 July,' he tolo the sympathetic crowd 'Of this political march', and 'I'm not prepared to allow the Tories to trample over m class for the next years, he added.
many ways Tony Benn. Dennis Skinner anc Arthur Scargil outdid th march organisers with the their speeches. They certainly roid the crowd what they wanted to hear, but it has to be remembered that it's the ud trump card.
It's the TUC at the mosaental ete mies nor the power of the working class will be used in the fight to defend jobs and force the Tories out of office. But what will they do after the march?
The South-east region is calling for a mass lobby of parliament when a new leavers hits the dole queues in July. The lUC is talk ing of a march not of hun. dreds but of thousands to highlight further the plight of the jobless.
Unemployment centres are being opened various towns, although restrictions on their activities are cumbersome.
All protests and actions against unemploy ment must be welcomed Yean one are The usefu ployed themselves have i be allowed a voice withir the trade movement. so that thev do no become isolated those in work as thev tend ed to in the 1930s.
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ARTHUR Scargill stole the thunder at the People's March rally on Sunday afternoon with a triumphant call to occupy factories to protect jobs. The battle against the Tories would be