The prospects look stormy for the truggle of the 1,900 journalist rinters, and office staff sacked b the Scottish Daily Express, Sunday Express, and Glasgow Evening Citizen.
The sil-in being carried on by 40 workers is little more than a token gesture. Its aim is simply to maintain their presence in the building white Governnent to purchase the plant and set up a new Scottish daily newspaper run by a workers' cooperative.
STATEMENT
On Saturday, the Action Committe attomatce to surt a statement 1o this chloct on the front parc of thu tamal Bos of the Scottish Sandey Migress After a near-physical confrontation betweon the editor and the committee, the prodaction inabed workers won persuaded by the manage munt la stop the prosses, and only 400 copteror the papur were printud Production of Scottish aditions of thie TREE DRONES POPEN TOS HOW SEETLE TO Manchester, whore workers have refused to support demands from Glasgow to black the new publishing opcration.
The idea of 'workers' co operatives! hax begun to gain an appeal within some sections of the labode werent over the past few manths It is possible, although unken, that coram co-operaties coolu Women workers were in action in Birmingham last week, resisting At the Typhoo Tea factory, where the majority of workers are married ced the cancellation of E2 million of investment, and warned that the plant will be closed down. This is because of the workers' refusal to The workers have responded with a ban on overtime, and a polley of nonRed Weakly 5 April 1974 Page 2 be made commercally vatic Hul Cham such cars, as we pointed out last week, they would in no way be sheltered from Ihu ll winds of the caniblist market Their workers Dung prepared to sacrifice to meet the demands of bankors and ine competilson of the market In fact, co-operatives can fit in vury well with the employers plans, The Boasurerook croup will ho doubl be son happy lo be able to rationalee is openi tions and get a good price for its old plant, at the some we as delusing any real resistance from its workers.
DIVISIVE
The formation of a cooperative in response to redundancies provor in practice to be darisie. It does not pose a slugon wisen the working class as a whuk can Like up and very often owen excludes wary workers who une clesly The refusal of the Manchester chupels to respone to the appeals for blacking Ivan Glaspow is reinforcod by the fact that the Claspow workers have onled for a men does not repare Ser support, except poraps in raising wash Raising the doman or the Motowsthat of 20e whos Booperrow Crown without compensation is the only way in watch tie manacups of temployers can he hocked. and i uniled struge bused on the interests atolf the workers developed.
cooperation. They lave warned the on to the shop-flour.
women, the management has announ ed not to accept the new senten, which would mcan altcrating belucen 6 am to 2 pit and 2 pm lo 10 pm stills. They provitusly worked from 8 ain to 4 pm, with an evening Shut ci 3a0 to 1s pn.
agrec to plans tor a double-day shift hard at women with children, who are expocled to look afler thum and ut the THE HE SUREL O TRUOTE TELEC is bone by the capitalist class, and that the worken operation is free of commer cial pressures cooperative plan seems to he doing, the polities of the newspaper which sbould be produced. It is no use projecting a bright, now" versien of the roactionary Daily Express The labour movement has no need for such a revamped tool of the bourguoisic.
workers paper, which with support the struggles of the working class. What the espropriation of the plant and machinery of an empleger who has sacked carly two thousand workers!
Glasgowworker it could have the effect of not only unity ing all the Heaverbrook worken, but the whole of the warkers" movement, around their struggle.
The Labour Party has long docried the fact that it is confronted hy a hostile The hands of the redundant Beaverbrook wer me newspaper witch coad b not wait for the Government to act thuy should take over the Beaverbrook operaworkers newspaper, wunts the new shifts lo squeas extra profit from mone advancoil machintry for producing lea haps.
At the Josoph Lucas factory in Harmingham, the prodilection of Ene management for laying off women worken led to a sit-in. The women wore in their finst hill week's work Mnee Christmas when they were laid off due to a stake by night-shill workors. Two thousand women were invoted in tbree Tackrks.
Thay followed this by walking out after an initial return to work, when the
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manapotiont that there will be a stoppar threats of lay-offs and redundancies if timestudy personnet an introluced