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ten years have been offered the princely sum of nine weeks redundancy pay plus a measly t90 golden" handshake. Litton has assets of almost-Cl billion. and Hall. This shutdown is the The mass sackings will have severe repercussions on the worsening job situation in hoth Leicester NAME..... THREE THOUSAND WORKERS AT IMPERIAL TYPEWRITERS' LEICES ter und Hull factories have become the latest victims of the capitalist crisis. Part of the giant American multinational, Litton Industries, Imperial Typewriters have given their workforce five weeks" notice before closure plans go As late as 14 January Hull shop stewards were told by management that 'there was no cause for panic'. Three days later the closures were announced Workers with the company for Iceister, BIGGEST CLOSURE Thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators turned out in Portugal last: best against the holding of the congress of the right-wing CDS party. Their militam protest upset Tory delegates, while the press moaned about 'attacks on democracy But the CDS serves as a rallying point for all the discredited reactionaries in Portu gal, although it tries to tart itself up as a "defender of democragy". It is the CDS whic! really threatens democracy, while the demonstrators are its staunchest cnampions..
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OW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO PAY THE RENT + ALL THEN BLEEDIN BILLS I class. birpest to hit the Hull area since the closure of Earle's shipyard in the twenties, At a stroke it will add another 20 per cent to the dole The Leicester area has already been hit by a rush of redundancies which has led some workers to retuse pay rises for fear of losing their johs. This recently happened af Checkmate Fashions-much to tries.
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LK Roger Teal is a fight for the whole working NF LIES Claims are being made by Leicester National Front that it was the Asdan workers strike last summer which has caused the closure If anything the failure of many white workers to support their Asian brothen'strike has strengthened the company's hand in the present situation The NE Lies can only further split the workforce at a time when it has the greatest need for unity. The reasons for the sackings lie in the state of capitalism and the cut-thron business methods of Litton Indus All Litton Indestries are intereste in is making a quick back. They claim to have lost 19 million since they started operations in Britain In 1965, and 15 million in the last two years alone, and so have repeatedly received generous state handouts. In 1973 they made an operating profit of 186.000 and what turned thos into a loss was interest payments to the banks and moneylenders totall ing 5l.317,000. After exploiting cheap labour in Hritain they new want to boost their profits by exploiting cheap labour clsewhere Labour MP for South Leicester Mr. Jim Marshall, has revealed that in 1973 the company had beer accused of lax evasions to the tune of 250,000 dollars in the United States. In the same yeur they bad courted the Greek colonels i order to make a isit of quick money. A monopoly investigation is currently Being carried but into Litton's attain by the US Federal Trade Commis OCCUPY!
There is only one way to fight thi vicious capitalist employer occupa rion of the Hall and Leicester jactoTier now!
*an occupation can stop the company moving the £1.7 million worth of plant machinery in Leicester and Hull:
*an occupation can establishi the militant focus for a national campaign by showing the workers mean business;
"an occapation can seize the company's books for trade union laspection:
*an occupation, by involving the mass of workers and operating through a democratically elected occupation costumittee, unites the workforce in the most effective method of struggle against factory The local trade union leadership in both Hull and Leicester have so far failed to organise this sort of decisive action. Rather than demand outright nationalisation under workers control, as has Leicester and District Trades Council, they have confused the issue by introdu cing talk of workers" cooperatives At the closed Triumph Meriden factory in Coventry the workers have waited 14 months for the promised cash from Benn's department. And even if they pet it there may well be lay-otis in order to make the co-op competitive in the capitalist marker.
SUPPORT
Support is growing both inside and curside Imperial for the tight. Leicester Trades Council has alreudy set up a special sub-committee. The fight against redundancies is a fight for the whole working class.
The International Marxist Group will be fighting to build this move ment, and urging militants to unite around the demand of nationalsation of all firmas declaring redundrecies, under workers control and with guarantees of no loss of jobr
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