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[On Friday 19th Septemb the leaders of the…]

Socialist Press no. 18, 1 October 1975 · scan pp. 7–8 · about 155 words

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On Friday 19th Septemb the leaders of the blastfurna men's union hastily called o the decision to lead their mu on official strike from th Sunday. By then, even befo the call, more than half the union's membership hi already gone on strike.

The decision to call the stri off on the basis of reinstating t suspended operator and carryi out an "enquiry" , Was a comple sell-out. The British Steel Corpi ation and the government will ne use the enquiry to cut manpor and stop steel workers' wages risi with the improved technology the industry.

But in line with their poli to stop any actions against t Labour Government the Morni Star, paper of the British Commu ist Party, lyingly called the sett ment a "victory".

So the spontaneous struggle the working class against the e ployers is in this way turned their reformist leaders and Stalin supporters into an attack on thr

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