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PRESS GANG Wreckers Unite!

Socialist Press no. 69, 14 September 1977 · scan p. 8 · about 325 words

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This Radio This time the workers really gone too far.

It is one thing to bring the country to its knees with a string of crippling strikes led by anarchist Trotskyists. That we had got used to.

Now car workers have gone beyond the limit. They have allowed a load of filthy foreigners to sell more cars in August than our wonderful British car firms (except for the workers that is).

And why is this? How come a load of Japs, Krauts and Wops can pass off their shoddy goods to our discriminating British buyers.

It is because our craven wreckers who pass for workers in this country have used up the valuable daylight working time that summer brings by ... going on holiday.

Foreign workers, who have not got the British disease know where to spend their holidays. They take the opportunity to chalk up some overume Workers at Rover have deciued they would rather not work night. This is just another example of how the British worker i ring Let's hear thousands of marched on ordered them to wreck the economy. if God had not meant us to work day and night he would not have put 24 hours in a day.

After all as the Financial Times said: "In sharp contrast, workers at the Honda factory in Japan have just voted to forgo four days holiday to meet buoyant orders for its Civic and Accord models."

three cheers for the Lucas women who the toolmakers and back to work.

Real determination and true British grit was written on the faces of cach of the hundreds of 'Back to Work" women.

But shop stewards stayed deaf to the pleas of the scores of these gallant women.

They escaped, although surrounded by the dozens who lobbied them. They even turned down the request of the five women who asked them to go back to work.

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← Contents of Socialist Press no. 69, 14 September 1977

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