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"This Leyland Combine Committee calls for a full BL shop stewards conference jo coordinate the 1981 wage Claim.

This Combine Committee lecommends that the claim hould be one that protects he living standards of its nembers.

1) €20 paid lates. icotts - they o know.

"They've become so ›bsessed with winning he next election in the anion they've forgotten the ABCs of trade unionsm, like organising physcal support for workers lefending jobs when /our national union eaders have stabbed you n the back.

«The leading CP conrenor in Manchester told is the other day, 'Some if you lads have got your reads in the sand - you ›ught to toe the official line.' Yet we all know that if it was their plant and jobs on the chopping block we'd hear a different story be allowed to complete an igreement with any employer or employers conerning wages, piecework prices or system of working inless the terms of agreement are first submitted to the district or districts iffected.

*'In all cases of disagreement between the district or districts affected and the Executive Council, the whole case shal be submitted to, and decided by the vote of the National Committee, to which both sides of the question may be put by each party concerned"!

So, the Executive decided to withdraw official status not only when it was clear that the mass of Laurence Scotts workers and the district rejected the agreement - and has refused to place the issue before the National Committee:

The CSEU has now 2) Pro rata percentage increase on premium rates.

3) 35 hour week.

The claim to be negotiated by reconstituted committee acceptable to all unions, comprised of majority of lay delegates.

Alternatively an ad hoc committee based on the samn e principles for this review only."

Edwardes, panicked 'We've also had problems contacting Arthur Scargill - he seems to have gone to ground.

"The problem is that once people hear you've been made unofficial it's that much more difficult to gain support, so we have returned to see the many rank and file activists in the factories and Scargill - to gone ground? to instruct all affiliates to withdraw support for the strikers. Branches of all affiliated unions should attempt to get resolutions passed on the above lines.

The Laurence Scott struggle has exposed the Dutti- eferer :Vational Committee Vational by the growing evidence of militancy on the wages issue, has called upon the BL workforce to become "lean and efficient" in order to meet foreign competition.

But BL workers are sick to the teeth with lean times and dwindling living standards. They are spoiling for a fight.

IEPORT BY ¡AROL HOB the vast majority of them are still supporting 1 «We received a el leque for £1,000 last week from the stewards' committee at the local BAC plant and they've promised more later.

Three So there is a three pronged character to the stewards campaign to win the struggle - these are 1) the campaign to increase the €3,000 a week coming into the factory;

2) the struggle to reverse the AUEW Executive Committee's decision withdraw official stat IS. Support is hypocrisy of the majority of officials of the national and local CSEU. In the last four months factory closures and large-scale redundancies have been announced in Manchester at Ingersoll-Rand (500), Luke and Spencer (450), B and S Masseys (200), ICL (700-plus), etc.

And at each of the mass meetings of the workforces at these plants, the officials bemoaned and berated the workers for a lack of fight. Yet when a whole workforce rises up in unison to defend jobs at Scotts - the officials can't wait to call off the battle.

But does this méan that all officials are the same, whether Broad Left or right wing, as the SWP tells us? i. Certainly not, for while the recent behaviour of AUEW Broad Left officials leaves a lot to be desired, without having John TochThe Leyland Action Committee, which has championed the £20 demand can play a crucial role in the next period in putting forward the necessary demands and focussing attention on the actions and manoeuvres of the officials and right wing convenors. being mobilised around the country to pull the next AUEW National Committee - the final arbiter in constitutional terms in disputes between the EC and the District Committee - in behind the Scotts JSSC policy for keeping the plant open;

leading trade unionists to highlight the leading role of the Scotts occupation in opposing redundancies in general.

Donations and resolutions of support should be sent to JSSC, c/o George Fryer, 20 Round Croft, Romilly, Cheshire. er (divisional organiser) and Duggie Daniels in key positions at the inception of the occupation there would have been no struggle at all.

Why? Because, initially, the leadership of the Scotts struggle was held by conservative stewards with little experience of struggle and indeed the early mass meetings were only carried with small majorities. Tocher, in particular, played a vital role in keeping the ball rolling in the early days.

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It was when Snipe rained counter-blows on the occupation and it became clear that a new offensive by the workforce (picketing Snipe's headquarters in Doncaster) was necessary that a new leadership emerged. These comrades Cowley led the way

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