ch review commissioned by them British capitalism is now facing.
figure of two million jobless will become a reality.
ployment is no longer merely a threat -families it has become a dreadful reality.
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ests of capitalism.
SIMMERING REVOLT ber.
built that will.
position on unemployment. The agents of capitalist policies in silence to get away with their criminal policies. wage a fight or stand exposed before the working class.
area. Two million unemployed by 1977. That is the forecast of top stockbrokers Phillips and Drew. Pointing out Britain's difficult - in fact almost impossible task — of borrowing money from current sources, a market researpoints the finger at the awful trade gap Even if British capitalism can get loans from its present normal sources - a very uncertain prospect - this will still leave a deficit over the next two years of a staggering £1,200 million. This means that at least 400,000 more jobs will disappear. The dole queues will grow and the frightening Meanwhile the Labour Government and its allies in the TUC mutter platitudes about 'keeping down unemployment'. The policies of the social contract have led to massive cuts in working class living standards. The Child Poverty Action Group now estimates that the number of families living below the poverty line has passed the two million mark. Unem- for millions of workers and their Jobs are disappearing. And all the TUC leaders can do in this situation is to scab on the struggle against unemployment. Their attack on the 26 November jobs demonstration was a callous stab in the back of the workers' movement and a service rendered to the interTwenty thousand people thronged the streets of London on 26 NovemThis was the beginning of a powerful, simmering revolt against the polities of betrayal. The fight against that betrayal must now be taken into the organisations of the working class itself. If the TUC will not fight for the interests of the workers, then a new leadership must be An important step in this campaign is to make the leaders of the working class accountable to their own members. In every branch, in every union, district and area committee, the call must go forth for an emergency meeting of the TUC. Let the bureaucrats stand up and be counted on their Jones, and the rest of the trade union bureaucracy - must not be allowed They must be forced to Build on the 26 November demo. Re-call the TUC. Fight for work-sharing with no loss of pay. Fight for nationalisation of all firms threatening redundancies, and for workers' control of these industries. Build Rightto-Work Committees - based on the working class movement - in every Friday of 350 shop stewards from Chrysler's Coventry plants and many other Coventry factories. To huge applause, Sharp repeated the Linwood stewards' demand for nationalisation and the intention of Linwood workers to occupy their plant if closure is attempted Initiated at the eleventh hour by Ryton convenors seeing the jobs of their workers being shipped out along with machinery, the meeting had a star-studdea prator. six coventy Labour MPs and two national trade the AUEW could offer was a vision of Chrysler being taken over by the National Enterprise Board and made a competitive firm in a mass volume market -presumably so that it can compete with the NEB's 'rationalised" British Leyland! Onlv Linwood stewards made a clear call for the Chrysler fight to se turned into a fight for the right to work of the whole working class. Scandalous The contributions of the 'left' MPs were nothing less than scandalous. None called for nationalisation. None spelled out me acuon necace to detend tons It was left to right-wing Labourites to even mcmon mes mines Price, MP for Rugby.
in this Government for the jobs of Chrysier workers. Not only that: he also Murray, proposals have suffered another big ers at the Standard Triumph assembly plant at Canley, Coventry, shop stewards at Rover, Solihull, have voted to recommend rejection of Ryder's prop osals to a mass meeting of all Rover workers in Birmingham. Only eight stewards voted for acceptance out of over 300 present at the meeting.
compensagon "Bugger protocol", exclaimed William "Although I'm a junior minister, I will fight and fight again British Leyland's 'worker participation' had been built in Britain.
defeat. Following the example of worksaid it was nonsense to talk about two state-owned car turms in Britain, and a single state owned car maustry was need ed! And it was left to right-winger George Park, ex-Ryton convenor and now a Coventry MP. to put forward the demand for nationalisation without It was from the floor that possible leads or me myser are came Harold Stanisgoult, AUEW(TASS) convenor at Carysier s researen and administrator centre at Whitley, announced that he and his fellow workers were drawing up a report on the internal workings of Chrysler. Contrary to popular benef, not only had new models been designed at Whitley - there had been 18 of them. But none The report was due to be issued this week.
The importance of the Whitley stewards action was underlined by IMG member Martin Jones, an office worker at Herbert's - where 300 redundancies have already been implemented. He emphasised that occupation was the decisive tactic. Chrysler workers should not hang around for the Government announceJones warned that the Labour Government was playing for time, aiming to demoralise Chrysler workers by weeks on the dole before actually sacking them The Whitley stewards should extend their action and draw up a plan for work-sharing with no loss of pay throughout the carysici combine. a plan tunda mental enough to be the basis of nationausanon He explained that when the Government took a majority shareholding in Herbert's it had demanded further redundancies. Nationalisation at Chrysler had to be under workers control to save jobs. Appealing for the formation of a Right to Work Committee, Jones argued that this was necessary to support Chrysle workers on the basis of a campaign for a common jobs policy in Coventry.
But with time running out, the resolution failed to issue a call for occupation and nationalisation, and simply demanded the retention of all Chrysler plants and for Coventry to be given the status of a development area. It is now up to militants throughout Chrysler to seize on the Linwood and warney intuatives to develop the fight for the right to work.