Challenge ¡TORIES:
dignity after years of humiliation and falling wages at the hands of Ed wardes.
Now we have the supof the membership.
Bu shop stewards must en sure they give the leadership • needed to THE OVERWHELMING Michael Edwardes' oppose Edwardes plan' after years of accepting a decline in living standards and the loss of thousands of jobs.
Given the of this world.
has forced the union make the strike situation inside back.
Edwardes undoubtedly workers. confrontation with the Tories.
square behind the Leyland workforce.
leading to the vote at Longbridge; what the BL the claim is for.
TO introduce Socialist Challenge to new vote of BL workers for all out national strike action is a magnificent rebuff to Sir blackmailing of coming out on 1 November showed the determination of the workforce to and his 'survival treacherous role the union leadership has played in being party to these attacks, the vote was even more remarkable. For too long, the workers in BL have been sold out by the Terry Duffys and Moss Evanses Now, with the derisory offer of 3.8 per cent on the basic rate, they have said enough is enough. They are no longer prepared to put up with Ed wardes' threats. Their determination leadership to official. The whole BL has been turned around and the workers are fighting has the backing of the Tories but their bluff has been called. Everyone knows that if the strike goes ahead, the very existence of the government is threatened. That is why the whole labour movement has to be 100 per cent behind the Leyland This will be the biggest test facing the working class since the Tories came to power. Over the next ten days every effort will be made by the union leaders to reach a 'compromise' as Terry Duffy so aptly put it. They are not seeking a But if we are going to get rid of Thatcher and Co for once and for all the BL strike will be a clarion call. The whole labour movement has to be four Here we publish an account of the events in the week the Jaguar Assembly plant. Inside (pages 4 and 5) how the vote went at workforce has been through under Edwardes' management; and what published by Penguin Books (usual price