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Send to: Socialist Press, 31, Dartmouth Par during the debate had sharply attacked the record of the union leaders and the Lib-Lab coalition and had argued constructively for clear The latest issue of the 'Leyland Mirror' carries a brief but jubilant article celebrating the successful imposition of a 17% cut in manning in the Spitfire trim area at Triumph, Canley.

"The new agreement has been welcomed as "a considerable achievement" by both body and assembly plant director Brian Fox and works convenor Eddy McGarry" gloats Leyland Mirror reporter K en Brand.

107 out of 621 workers have been transferred from Spitfire trim to work on the Dolomite-while Spitfire production levels remain unchanged-in other words PHOTO: Laurence Sparham, IFL The announcement by Birds Eye management workforce.

Wthout such certain losers are in the now factory.

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Address 1P% extra effort is to be extracted from the remaining 514 workers, for no • extra pay.

Small wonder plant director Fox was delighted. But he might be wise to begin to consider if his own job is safe.

There is no doubt that it would have been impossible to inflict such an attack on such a substantial section of workers without the craven collaboration of extreme right wing convenor Eddy McGarry, and his hangers on.

'Achievement'

McGarry unwittingly revealed the difficulty that they had when he told the Leyland Mirror:

Birds Eye pickets WO This new turn is driven on by the crisis of profitability faced by the employers.

It can only be fought by the development of a leadership that starts not from the 'rights' or the 'viability' of this, that, or the other employer, but from the right of every worker to a job, to decent living standards and working conditions.

Occupation

Rather than caving in to Birds Eye's threats to sack the Kirby workforce, a principled leadership would have fought for occupation of the plant, the opening of the books of the firm to prove the case for its nationalisation and for the support of other sections of the Birds Eye La fight the the workers "reprieved"

PRESS London "It's quite an achi evement on the stewards' pa rt-they had to play a major part in getting acceptance of the reduction"

Far from willing workers anxious to help out Leyland management, the Spitfire trim section at Canley is a section saddled with an openly reactionary leadership.

Job in danger

This is where plant director Fox's job is in danger. Because this latest "deal" indicates there are two people in the plant effectively speaking for Leyland management -Fox and McGarry.

If speed up and rationalisation continue to be the order of the day, Leyland chiefs wil soon have to consider whether it wouldn't be cheaper to employ McGarry on his own.

The crusade by Westminster Press to prove themselves the most ruthless newspaper barons in provincial journalism is now in full spate.

Just nine chapels of National Union of Journalist members are still being refused their pay increaseand all nine are in the Westminster Press empire.

NUJ members are being refused backdating on a 10% rise of £7.09 a week because they took action to change a clause on local deals.

Off pay roll

The move is designed to boost the membership of the Institute of Journalists, the tame 'house union' carefully nurtured by employers.

Journalists on the Evening Mail at Slough have been taken off the pay roll for refusing to use telephonesalthough their management has refused to describe them as dismissed.

Colleagues on eight other local papers are imposing severe sanctions that have reduced the content of the papers but failed to stop Opinion among chapel members that a strike will be necessary to wring the back pay out of employers is hardening.

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