BIRMINGHAM shop history last Thursday.
Executive in their handling the toolroom dispute.
only one to raise his hand and vote against.
doing SU they were joined for.
betrayal was strong: • Ken Allen, AUEW Deputy Convenor, Rover Solihull:
MICK KIce, Chairperson Lucas BW3:
not just amongst militants with the EC'.
Mick nogan, Leyland:
and management members'.
DISGUSTING District AUEW. and Committee, Lucas BW3:
members was disausting...ine take on Jones and Scanion' Derek Robinson is an example, incomes policy only a month ago. can't afford strikes against nationalised industries'.
Derek Robinson, remembered by dispute.
and British Leyland.' (Morning Star 16.3.77)
OPPOSING On the contrary them.
backing if they go out again' carworkers any ope The two pronged strategy and their alliance with the lefts' camp of the Leyland strike-breakers.
DEFEND But the toolmakers, jobs or services against this Labour Government.
steward and Communist Party member, Jimmy Cope earned himself a minor place in when, East Birmingham District meeting of AUEW shop stewards took a motion condemning Hugh Scanlon and the rest of the AUEW Of the approximately 300 members present, Cope was the Other members of the CP did vote to condemn Scanlon, and in everyone from traditonal 'moderates' to revolutionaries. All had the same view - that the role Scanion and the rest of the AUEW executive played when they backed management's threat to sack their own members was an affront to everything the trade union movement stands The anger the stewards felt is difficult to exaggerate, and speaking to Red Weekly when the meeting ended, the sense of endorse management's statement was class collaboration'.
Joint Shop Stewards Committee, Obviously my union leadership that agreed to the sackings need to be criticised - indeed they need to be removed. The feeling is — even right wingers are disgusted Senior Steward, nights, T&T Drews Lane, 'It was pure treachery by Scanlon. He sold us down the river, he sold the whole bloody union down the river. Its diabolical when come together Sack * Larry Connolly, Broad Left candidate for secretaryship of East Convenor of Joint Shop The union leadership lining up with employers against its own general view members is that when it comes to the Social Contract, we not only have to fight the government and management, we have to There are exceptions to this 'general view' Connolly spoke of the Longbridge convenor and toolroom worker who had struck such militant poses against According to Connolly, *Robinson is saying what Jones and Scanion are saying like Jimmy Cope, Is a member of the Communist Party. If the betrayal of Scanlon and Jones, will be carworkers long after the toolroom issue is settled, so too will the role of the Communist Party in that Through the editorials of the Morning Star, the Communist Party urged immediate capitulation to the blackmail threats of Leyland management, the Government and the union bureaucracy, saying, 'the continuation of the strike can only lead to further divisiveness between one section of workers and another For the EC to UHOI Leyland toolroom workers conference the toolroom workers' determina