Workers at the axed Scottish Daily Express, Sunday Express, and Giargow Evening Citizen have announced their intention to sit-in from Saturday.
They plan to publish a new Scottish daily produced by a workers' co-operative. And they hope to use their redundancy payments to finance this enterprise.
The confusion involved in wach a venture was typified by their demonstration on Sunday-the plutform including Labour, Tory and Scottish Nationalist MPs.
A worken con perative is no guarantee of workers" jobs, or of the conditions BANKERS RAMP If the 1,900 journalists, printers, and office staff that the Beaverbrook group hat decided to dump were prepared to make enormous scrifices, pay themsches a pinance, апотосо t prepared to sab who should be sacked, it is possible that the bankers, newsprint supplier, and advertises, might consider supporting the operation -on their terms Government is over for the Bristol sircraft worke coco on the concorac project Pressure from the world banks publie spending is forcing the self styled champion or me bestor workong class, Tony Benn, towards throwing 10,000 DE mis supporters out or MER.
At last Thursday's meeting of Bristol support for a resolation opposing any Concorde h cancelled or not But the confused perspectives of some of the aireralt wutken loaders were apparent, Jolin Blackley, AUEW Convenor at Rolb Royce, said that the Rolls Royce! BAC Joint Union Liaison Committee had demanded a parliamentary sleet comThe survival of the co-operative would be entirely at the whim of these merchants. and the politics of the newspaper it produced trimmed to meet these ша concerators, That, arter ne is what the capitalists tell us is a 'free"
The Doily Express and its stablemates are no treads of the wurkins closs. These papers have viciously attacked workers in struggle, and are consistentiy racist and sexist. Appeals to trade unioniste to save them in their present foon would-and ought to-fall on deaf cars. Production under the management of the newspaper workers is therefore an essential proposi tion to put to the labour movement.
But the question of finance is crucial, and there is only one correct way to pose 1e: Who should be made to pay for the capitalists" crisis? Certainly not she newspaper workers themsewes shu not thie rest of the working class, in the shape of EXPROPRIATE!
The capitalists must be made to pay, and the way to achieve this is to expropriate the Beaverbrook plant, demand that HAR HAR! the Labour Government nationalise Che whole Beaverbrook Group, and provide financial assistance for continued producof a lery imposed on the rest of the capitalist press the axe, so much the better! The workers can then take them over and extend the Jevy to the whole of the capitalist class A resolution passed by the London NATSOPA branch list Thursday begins to puint in this direction, The resclution, put up by the Brening Standand chapel, pointed bet that the closure of the Scornish Dolly Express was only to be called for the secting up of a national to investigate alternacive methods of producing newspapers st-in in Glasgow needs innediate support, and the Bravirbrook Group's plans to publish a Scottish edition of the Doil Express in Manchester from 1 April must be blacked by all the workers involved. tion ander workers management by means If this means that they too fall under Red Weekly
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HONEYMOON WITH LABOUR OVER FOR CONCORDE WORKERS
AS LONG AS THEY LET ME KEEP COOKING THE BOoKS STAY AS WEAK AS THEY ARE