Talbot fight on
Socialist Press1979 1979-09-05Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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Workers at both of the Chrysler/Talbot plants in Coventry are standing firm in their nine week struggle for a living wage against the new Peugeot management.
Delegations of stewards have been visiting other factories in all the main industrial areas, seeking financial support: to supplement the puny levels of official strike pay awarded by both AUEW and TGWU.
Militants recognise that the struggle-sparked off by a management pay offer of only 5½% to Ryton workers-is a decisive test of strength with Peugeot, whose anti-union record on the shop floor in France is second to none.
But still there is no sign that, for all the talk of support from Moss Evans, any serious steps have been taken with docks stewards to black the import of strikebreaking supplies of French-made Alpines.
TGWU branches in particular, in supporting the Talbot struggle, should demand of union leaders that this blacking begin at once.
*Donations to W. Brooks, Talbot Strike Fund, Transport House, Short Street, Coventry CV1 2LS.
Mustafa Gorgzadeh telegrams to the Iranian embassy demanding that the regime:
*Immediately release the HKS prisoners.
*End the murderous persucution of prostitutes and Iranian