immediate expulsion.
Leyland, reports below.
compel them to call off their strike. As a result the district committee withdrew its threats. The latter were still smarting from their defeat at Leyland's Bathgate plant. The member: ship there nad refused to give way despite the withdraw credentials from the leading The executive had BACILE DOVI But the toolmakers will now have 1o confront the pressure of management. ruthlessness has already been demonstrated in the closure of Speke. He will now turn his who have become the single LOCALIS most devloping a corporate har for British gaining structure Leyland Cars. Such a structure prong management strategy, Its aim is to reduce shop floor control of wage negotiations.
CENTRALISE Leyland is attempting CECILEISU all the questions of productivity, We and Inves toolmakers are challenging this strategy. As such they must be supported by Nonetheless the strategy workers. If they structure it will be a striking lesson to other workers.
DANGERS Unfortunately the toolroom committee is not bringing this issue to the fore. So despite the danpers. For the committee has the concentrated an emphasiste wage differentials and separate resulted in them going it alone and not even attempting draw wider support front ofber the seeds of isolating TREAT THE BUSES CULT of Lesland workers.
Bange can pc seen in some ch Roy statements, Hehasbeguntotalk of both minority representation corporate bargaining with a special toolmakers at the negotiating table.
TO This kind of development major was inevitable once the central problem contronuee Levand The was ignored namely the moony of te company itself. The toolroom discovered this last year. Since then they have begun to modily | incit tactics and seek a special place inside the corporate set up.
WRANGLES This could lead to wrangling break this within the company about who bets want wallin the lunts laid down by management and the 48BOTH COISE This will do nothing to protect the leness or Leviand workers as a whole.
Michael Edwardes has made it clear that his response to strikes is to create redundanCis. Te tacHc used at Socke will now he used at Bathgate, In a lener to emplosoes ne mus This has deciared that any strike by the redundancies at Longbrides. Comics, Canley.
Both Swindon and Speke the number 1 are treatened with closure and Edwardes will use This strikes us the cover up for such moves lif an attempt to put the recent blame on the work force. As the Edwardes letter puts it, this consequence of such a strike YULS now or al any me muc up This line of attack from management divide the workforce against itself; It needs answers thas simple militancy and sectional interest cannot provide. Yet committee such a response will become more not less important in the will mean going to the wall.
CLOUDS answers lo the problem Board, PLAN workers not profit.
lead to immediately political and patriotism against me.
The awful expel members aprec пер. мрткет sent throughout the attacks threatens to the advance.
The European car industry is undergoing major changes which will mean big cut-backs in jobs, and which companies Leyland is a prime candidate lor the lailer. the unions ir Leyland will me to demon redundancies from rationalisation which prioritises the needs of the workforce as a whole.
A first step towards this should be the drawing up of a industry. This plan would have the SAST 1o be based on social need and In Leyland struggles around wages and conditions become As one of theleaders of the SU strikers put it They are using all my only answer to that is to use socialist criteria against thesi atempts of the Engincering Union leaders to who de with Duify and Boyd give us an indication of what LEYLAND boss Michael Edwardes could lead to the loss of 200
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The SU toolmakers refused to bow to pressure designed to
THE ENGINEERING union's executive suffered a sharp rebuff last week from the workers at SU Carburettors. They refused to work despite threats of
employed by the toolmakers' leaders raises some problems, as PAT HICKEY, a shop steward at British
and recognition of the rightsof minonly groups!, This means, in effect, an acceptance of the
DIVIDE place for the