ers must win... or the whole British working class movement suffers a major defeat. SOLIDARITY BUILDS... A tready many groups of workers have expressed a basic understanding of what is at stake here and have come to the aid of the CAV workers. Liverpool dockers and workers at the airport have agreed in principle to black all Lucas products exact mechanisms for this can be worked out. Money has been coming in from other workers in the Lucas combine and through the AUEW. A call from the occupation committee for a one day stoppage of all Merseyside Lucas workers on 10 November has been agreed to by stewards from the four other combine operations in the area (Girlings Victor Works, Rotax, & L.I.E.) and endorsed by the Liverpool District Committee of the AUEW. The Liverpool Trades Council has called a meeting of all shop stewards on Merseyside for the 7th to discuss extending support for this stoppage. Students at Liverpool University have held a meeting with representatives from the factory after which a support committee was established. ... BUT MUST BE EXTENDED All of these measures are excellent. But the task facing all socialists and trade union militants is to make this just the beginning of a big nation-wide campaign to ensure that the fight at CAV is won for the working-class. As a first step trade union militants should make sure that the entire trade union movement is aware of the struggle at CAV and understands the importance of the issues involved -this is not something the working-class will find out from the capitalist-controlled press or television. They should pass motions of support through their branches and stewards" committees and raise money for the struggle at CAV. At the same time every group of workers should discuss ways in which they can use their particular industrial power to aid the CAV workers and prepare the ground for a campaign of industrial action against the Lucas combine. This is not the kind of struggle that can be won through gentlemanly negotiations or by the industrial action of an isolated group of workers: vi ctory will require the mobilization of the full industrial strength of the British working-class. Activists in the student, women's liberation and black power movements, and those involved in tenants committees, should immediately begin to discuss the ways in which their own struggles relate to capitalist rationalization for Common Market entry and thus the fight at CAV's. Money and motions of support should similarly be raised; and every effort should be made to contact local groups of workers who may not be fully informed about the situation at CAV. The establishment of support committees throughout the country should be considered as a possible step for the very near future. In the interests of creating such a broad movement of trade unionists and others who suffer from the oppression of the capitalist system, in support of the fight at CAV, The Red Mole will be carrying regular information and analysis about this key struggle in coming issues Requests for further information, messeges of support and financial contributions snould be forwarded to:
Treasurer, CA V Sit-In Committee, AEU House, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 1.
The Red Mole 13 November 1972 Page 3
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