Dunlop -buck passed back
Socialist Press1979 1979-04-11Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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In a shrewd move, the TGWU General Executive Council last week threw the ball of defending Dunlop's threatened Speke plant firmly back into the court of the local "Action Committee".
The GEC voted to give official backing to any action taken by the "Action Committee' to save the jobs.
But there should be no mistake about the motives behind this almost unprecedented blank cheque for official action.
The last thing the GEC wishes in the midst of an Election campaign is a full-scale occupation of the Speke plant or any serious industrial action to stop the closure, scheduled for April 19.
They feel confident that local convenors, and GEC chairman Stan Pemberton, who heads the "Action Committee" will continue along the futile road of token protest they have Tollowed so Tar indeed this Committee has shown itself willing tó occupy main roads, London side streets, management offices, Radio Merseyside studios-occupy ANYTHING other than the doomed factory!
Needless to say such gimmicks have attracted uncritical praise from the Socialist Workers Party which last year extolled the very mass meeting that knifed any prospect of. occupation at British Leyland's Speke plant.
The facts are clear: Dunlop will certainly close in one week unless the Action Committee uses the power now in its hands and organises a full scale occupation in Speke, calling for solidarity strikes by TGWU members throughout the tyre industry in their support.
Any other form of "action" at this stage is no more than a hollow fraud..
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