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Last week's CDLM câiworkers, conference called to discuss the "Crisis in the Motor Industry" was attended by 40 carworkers and was highly successful. Essential Less than a year after the closure of British Leyland's Triumph plant at Speke, Merseyside, with the loss of 3,000 jobs, and only months after the announcement of plans for a further 500 sackings at the other Triumph plant, Speke workers face a new The giant Dunlop corporation has decided to slash back its tyre manufacturing operation and to close down its Speke plant, sending 2,400 more workers to join Merseyside's thronging dole queues.

Elsewhere, 440 workers are to face the chop in the Fort Dunlop plant in Birmingham; 250 at Inchinnan in Scotland and, in further rationalisation moves, Dunlop's Waltham Abbey factory producing sports equipment is to close -throwing 458 workers out of a job.

But no Dunlop worker is safe. Management has coupled these savage redundancy plans with an ultimatum to unions to improve productivity in every plant.

With the bitter lessons of the sell out of jobs at the Speke Triumph plant still ringing in their ears, Dunlop workers must take determined steps to resist these moves.

Local left' MP Eddie Loyden has already talked about an occupation of the plant.

This step is essential in the fight to defend the threatened jobs. And Speke workers are strongly placed to demand full scale union backing for such actionsince TGWU convenor Stan Pemberton is chairman of the union's General Executive Council!

Fatal weakness

The tatal weakness in the struggle against British Leyland's closure plans was that officials, convenors and stewards wasted precious weeks and months in blustering general statements, token protests and futile talks with management.

To the very last moment they refused to call for NO LADDIE_ YOU"

DON'T UNDERSTAND!

P'M THE COMMUNIST... occupation of the plantand demoralised the thousands of workers ready to fight to save their jobs.

In Dunlop the stewards must call an immediate mass meeting and adopt at once a programme for the defence of all jobs in the company by:

*Occupation, of the factory.

* Election of a committee of trade unionists to demand access to the employers' books to examine Dunlop's real strategy for rationalisation and speed-up and the causes of its supposed "losses".

Supporting action

*Fighting for combinewide supporting action based on the policy of work sharing on full pay in place of the company policy of sackings and combine-wide speed-up.

*Demand that Loyden and other 'left' MPs lead a fight inside the Labour Party and in Parliament for the nationalisation. of Dunlop, without compensation and under workers' management-fighting for the removal of the jobcutting anti-socialist Callaghan-Healey leadership. Evans-his chairman under sacking threat LEAGUE Public meeting Tow to win the Public Sector workers' claim Speakers from Public Sector unions THURSDAY FEB 8.00 p.m:

East Oxford Community Centre, Princes St.

DON'T BE FOOLED, LADDIE - THIS IS A WORLD COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY! JOHNSON!. RUN ALONG AND GET ME A QUOTE ABOUT COMMUNIST 1 INFILTRATION FROM O'FISHALL! YES SIR!

'IT'S THE BLASTED

MEMBERSHIP ARE THE WRECKERS!

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