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The banner of the threatened Park Royal plant stewards' committee, is a familiar sight on Stalinist-dominated lobbies and marches against unemployment. Will they lead a fight to defend their own jobs?

the Speke mass meeting which finally abandoned any fight against the closure.

The TGWU convenors' decision to back any plant which fights closure or the transfer of work is an obvious reflection of mounting shop floor militancy.

But it also spotlights the central question for BL workers: the first task is to get action in the threatened plants, around which solidarity action can be fought for.

No faith whatever should be placed in the coalition of Stalinists and right wingers that dominate the Combine Committee-nor in the 28-man "emergency committee" that was set up last week by Confed officials to hold back concerted action against Edwardes' attacks.

The crucial issue is to demand that mass meetings are held at the threatened plants and at once adopt the policy of occupation to prevent closure or redundancies-a policy that was never even put to the Speke workforce despite weeks of bureaucratic protests and rhetoric!

Linked to the fight for occupation must be the fight for supporting action throughout BL and the engineering The basis for this can be clearly established through the election in each threatened plant of trade union committees to fight for the opening of BL's books and those of its suppliers.

This will reveal just exactly who profits from the low-wage exploitation of the corporation's 100,000 manual workers, and what further plans are in store for those workers not on Edwardes' list for closures and redundancies.

Such an investigation would show the way in which private suppliers, contractors, dealer networks and agencies, the banks and large trusts feed off the supposedly unprofitable "nationalised" BL operation.

On the basis of such inforSocialist Press, Wednesdey 19 Seprember 1979 ERNATIONALIan Smith and Bishop Abel Muzorewa could be seen relaxing over the first weekend of the Zimbabwe constitutional conference as they participated in religious rites on the Sunday.

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There is not even a specific guarantee to protect private property against the threat of state ownership or other forms of expropriation.

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