So the Liverpool factory occupations are not, for the present at any rate, going to take place. Of course, disappointment about the news.
The shop stewards of the GEC action committee, with their staunch allies on the won deep admiration all over the country. From the terrific mail which has come to the offices of the Institute for Workers' sympathy for the proposed action extended Committee broadsheet, appearing daily, major industry and trade union. co-ordinate research and information services, not enough to carry the day. cannot, of course, offer any sensible advice this battle is a perfect example of the wisdom of Rosa Luxemburg's famous dictum, that "the mistakes of the working class are more valuable than the wisdom of the most perfect central committee". . Of course, there were mistakes in the Merseyside struggle, and it is important that they should be carefully evaluated by both the workers concerned and their colleagues in other industries and enterprises: because the fight against redundancies is an inevitable outcome rationalisation, on a national and international the development ICTECTS and scale. The main work of discussion and analysis will begin among the GEC stewards themselves, and very soon, because it Is quite clear that they do not intend to take 3,000 dismissals lying down, and that the last word has not yet been spoken in the Weinstock empire. Mr. Bewley, the "loyalist" shop steward who saved the day for the management, has pr ed to be a short lived asse spokesmen who have been involved, revealed their different wavs apprehension about the takeovers. The ghost is laid. It does seem clear Would obtain concerning wages, redundancy payments What did you tell that I told him to work faster!
Then instead of you paying him, he pays to work faster!
Huh? during the period of the occupation; and second, the need to "break the ice" before the occupation itself by a series of actions which authority inside the workplace. Delicate legal effectively challenged the management's problems existed, of course: but there is no doubt, and there was no doubt in the Action Committee's minds, that the key problems of finance and protection would depend, directly,
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man just now? pay him?
you forty seven pounds a day to tell him