Who Gets Chrysler Slush?
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by elections and local elections.
And as they did so, Callaghan dropped any pretence of socialist policies, concluding a reactionary parliamentary coalition with the Liberals. There is now no Labour government to "save".
Now Chancellor Healey is time and again stating that he wants overall wage increases held down to bankers and distributors was made this week by the giant Chrysler Corporation.
While refusing to say where payments were made, and how much was involved in each case, Chrysler assessed payments over the five years 1971-76 at $425,000 a year.
The international corporation maintains ten funds in seven overseas countries.
Among their routine expenditure is $173,000 a year to tax officials and other government employees-to smooth the way to easy trade, and $30,000 a year are paid to trade union representatives in six foreign countries.
new pamphlet just published, available om the Workers Socialist League, 31, irtmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR This raises huge questions for workers in Chrysler. The management has only recently carried through a major redundancy programme, bringing about rationalisation of its operations and attacks on working conditions.
In bringing this about management found cooperation from a wide range of trade union officials and conveners, each of whom was ready to sell the jobs of their members in the bid to increase Chrysler's profits and make it "viable"
But perhaps they were selling these jobs for something of more immediate value to themselves?
Perhaps they were receiving a slice of Chrysler's $30,000 cake for union collaborators?
Unless Chrysler are forced to reveal full details. of their slush fund, and name the trade unionists concerned, every union official and convener must be suspect.
And of course, $30,000 is simply the amount Chrysler admit to spending, as a result of their own enquiry.
The Leyland slush fund scandal, and the BP revelations indicated the many ways in which such illicit backhanders can be paid under seemingly innocent headings in account books.
Chrysler workers must demand an immediate investigation be carried out by an elected committee of rank and file trade unionists -to hound out the paid agents of management.