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strike Stalinism and post-war Euro Amnesty and South Africa. Our Policies: Defend USSR. Chile.
Combine. Committee to divert fight down blind alley chairman Robinson. attempts n-L: minn of "economic arguments" for preserving the plant.
Liverpool taking action".
They are doing everything to ensure that no action is taken at Speke.
So determined are some of these convenors to stamp out any resistance to Leyland's plans that they are spearheading moves within the TGWU to victimise the elected leadership in the Cowley Assembly Plant, known for their outright opposition to speed-up, closures and sackings.
One of these leaders -deputy convenor Alan thos nett → is threatened with expulsion from the union.
To collaborate with the government-backed assault on jobs and working conditions in Leyland demands of union leaders that they bureaucratically repress those forces capable of leading principled resistance.
The task in Speke is to ensure that action is taken to throw out the management's closure plans and mount a fight for defence of all jobs.
Confrontation The only way jobs can be saved is through all-out confrontation with manage.
ment. The plant must be occupied and the strike against speed-up continued.
Workers must demanc Leyland open its books to ar elected trade union commit tee, so that the "losses" or TR7 and Dolomite produc tion at Speke can be relater to the huge profits of private ly owned componen suppliers.
The Combine Committe:
must be called upon to mak:
good their words and mobilise genuine support fo this action, and to take u!
the demand for nationalis ation of the component firm And if the TR7 o Dolomite turn out to b unsaleable vehicles, then th demand must be added for programme of useful publi works to employ the whol Speke workforce.
In the meantime ther must be no sackings, but programme of work-sharin on full pay under the contre of trade union committees.
Such a fight will brin Leyland workers into hear on conflict with the Lib-La coalition government and i defenders "left' and righ and highlight the need i build a principled leadershi in the trade union and labor movement.