Secret files -ounc
Socialist Press1977 1977-05-25Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Services (RSS), a British Steel Corporation subsidiary in Greenwich, has now been occupied by workers for over ten days.
The action is in defence of six workers sacked and seven suspended after the factory's workforce joined in the one-day NUPt protest against the cuts on May 11.
But in the course of the occupation a much more sinister level to the dispute has been revealed-as workers › uncovered detailed political dossiers drawn up for management both on trade union activists in the plant and on job applicants.
Other documents showed that management had regular consultation with the virulent anti-communist _private employers' grouping the Economic League which provides lists of "extremists"
The Economic League is of course rigidly opposed to nationalisation. Yet funds from the state owned steel industry have obviously been channelled in its direction.
The occupying workers, strengthened in their resolve by these revelations are now calling for a black on all BSC reinforced steel rods on London's building sites.
This must be linked to the call for support throughout BSC, and for the opening of the books and secret dossiers in every steel plant to elected workers committees.