Convenors reject Confed plan

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The bureaucracy of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions received a shock when all their carefully planned manoeuvres were defeated by a BL senior stewards meeting last Thursday.

The Confed put a resolution, with the agreement of the BL National Joint Negotiating Committee, that accepted the company's imposition of their contentious grading structure.

The right of the company unilaterally to decide the grading would be accepted, with the addition of an appeals procedure that was completely weighted in favour of the company's position.* The resolution passed by the Senior Stewards by a 4-1 majority rejected the company's (THERE'S STILL A FEW UNTIDY MOTIONS)

I NEED SORTING OUT. (ARE THE CULPRITS OUTSIDE?)

BRING ONE IN! J DUT TUQ SO.K. MOTIONS : WRECKERS RIGHT IT'S YOUR TURN NOW BROT KEEP OUT right to do this and laid out a 'series of steps that would be taken if they did.

These steps included using the plants' own procedure, and then giving five days' strike notice.

Longbridge

was this latter thet was put forward by the Stalinists who at Longbridge havs held back workers who wanted to strike by saying they should wait till the back pay is in their hands and in the meantime use the procedure.

This was moved at a Longbridge stewards' meeting last Tuesday and passed overwhelmingly.

Nevertheless the most important question is that the Senior Stewards' vote has cleared the way for workers to take action.

Some plants are already on ...BUT I CAN EXPLAIN- THE SHOP FLOOR LADS..)

OUT 1933X WHAT'S THE SHOP FLOOR GOT TO DO WITH IT?

THIS IS THE TUC!

AMARE the new grading structure and individuals have received notification of their grade.

This is the case at Longbridge and Swindon but not Cowley where the Assembly Plant stewards have received a list of gradings but the Body Plant has received nothing.

At the moment most plants seem to be waiting for the first to act. Some sectional stoppages have taken place at Swindon but the leadership were holding back for the Senior Stewards' meeting.

Weaken

This holding back must end. The usé of procedure and other devices will only help to weaken the feeling.

Sections who know their grade and disagree with it must strike and call for support from others.

SO YOU'RE THE WISE GUY WHO WANTS US TO STOP TALKING TO THE TORIES! A FEW MINUTES LATER...

$80 A TUC NEXT!

KEFe OUT WELL THAT'S CLEARED EUT ISANT IT TIME JIM DITCHED THO UP THE AGENDA! NAMBY-PAMBIES IN THE LABOUR PART AND TOOK A LEAF OUT OF OUR BOOK -KERS7 TOR MOTION It is no chance that the capitalist press are full of 'leaked' stories of plant closures and redundancies, that will supposedly be announced next Monday 10 September.

To fight now means that workers refuse to accept the employers' crisis with regard to wages: they must say the same with regard to jobs.

To fight any of the employers attacks today workers must have a programme for defence of jobs.

Be prepared to occupy factories, demand work sharing on full pay in place of sackings.

And challenge Edwardes . proposals for further closures and redundancies by fighting to open up the books of Leyland, its suppliers, retailers and bankers, to elected trade union committees to expose exactly whose profits are being made . out of this "lame duck" corporation.

K INDEED!

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SOCIALIST PRESS ders 13 members of the Iranian HKS (Socialist Workers Party) are currently undergoing a re-trial in Tehran having been originally sentenced to death by the Islamic regime.

The arrest, trial and savage sentence on these socialists, whose "crimes" consisted of vigorously defending the democratic rights of women and oppressed nationalities in Iran in defiance of the Khomeinibazargan government, has produced a flood of protest