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-ORGANISED * Organise the left to beat back the Tories' attacks! No to labour movement. Organise full support for black attacks on union rights; defend the picket-line; no state interference in our unions! No to any wage curbs. Labour * The capitalist police are an enemy for the working class. To make Socialist Organiser a real campaigning paper that must support all struggles for better living standards and Support all demands to weaken them as a bosses' striking can organise the left in the movement, it needs its own force: dissolution of special squads (SPG, Special Branch, * Wage rises should at the very least keep up with price organised activist support - and money. increases. For a price index calculated by working class *Free abortion on demand. Women's equal right to work and organisations, as the basis for clauses in all wage agreements full equality for women. Defend and extend free state big towns to build a real base for the paper. to provide automatic monthly, rises in line with the true cost of living for the working class. The same inflation-proofing * Against attacks on gays by the state: abolish all laws which Supporters are asked to undertake to sell a minimum of should apply to state benefits, grants and pensions. discriminate against lesbians and gay men; for the right of the six papers an issue and to contribute at least £1 a month * Fight for improvements in the social services, and against cuts. Protection for those services against inflation by auto- * The Irish people - as a whole - should have the right to gay community to organise and affirm their stand publicly. (20p for unwaged). So becoming a supporter helps build matic inflation-proofing of expenditure. For occupations and determine their own future. Get the British troops out now! our circulation and gives the paper a firmer financial base. supporting strike action to defend jobs and services. Repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Political status for If you like Socialist Organiser, think it's doing a good * End unemployment. Cut hours, not jobs. Fight for a 35 Irish Republican prisoners as a matter of urgency. job, but realise that it can't possibly do enough unless you hour week and an end to overtime. Demand work-sharing * The black working people of South Africa should get full without loss of pay. Organise the unemployed - campaign support from the British labour movement for their strikes, for a programme of useful public. works to create new jobs struggles and armed combat against the white supremacist Fill in the form below and send it to: Socialist Organiser, regime. South African goods and services should be blacked. * It is essential to achieve the fullest democracy in the labour movement. Automatic reselection of MPs during each parlia* Defend all jobs! Open the books of those firms that threat- ment and the election by annual conference of party leaders. en closure or redundancies, along with those of their suppl- Annual election of all trade union officials, who should be iers and bankers, to elected trade union committees. For occupation and blacking action to hall the closures. For * The chaos, waste, human suffering and misery of capitalism nationalisation without compensation under workers' now - in Britain and throughout the world - show the urgent need to establish rational, democratic, human control • Make the bosses pay, not the working class. Millions for over the economy, to make the decisive sectors of industry hospitals, not a penny for 'defence"! Nationalise the banks social property, under workers' control. The strength of the and financial institutions, without compensation: End the labour movement lies in the rank and file. Our perspective interest burden on council housing and other public services. must be working elass action to raze the capitalist system down lo its foundations, and to put a working class socialist Scrap all immigration controls. Race is not a problem; alternative in its place — rather than having our representracism is. The labour movement must mobilise to drive the atives run the system and waiting for crumbs from the tables -fascists off the streets. Purge racists from positions in the mittee)

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All meetings start at 7.00 pm. For further details phone 609 3071. IȚ IS now over two months since the workers at Glencroft Knitwear were sacked for joining a union.

The labour movement should have been able to win the dispute long ago.

In fact there is still no end in sight to the present stalemate.

Newman, the firm's owner, seems to have been maintaining normal levels of production.

Scab drivers

Although pickets have stopped some supplies from going in Newman's nephew and scab lorry drivers have ensured a continuous supply of raw materials for the firm.

The Glasgow labour movement has not been mobilised into supporting the picket lines. The Right to Work Campaign has called "mass pickets" each Tuesday conditions.

for the unemployed.

management.

* Freeze rents and rates.

NO TONAL DNION UF ISIERY & ANITALAR WORKERS which has attracted extra pickets, but this a drop in the ocean compared to what could be mobilised if the Trades Council and Labour Party Scottish Council were to take the lead in calling on workers to join the picket lines.

Organised blacking of Glencroft products at the airport still hangs in the air. One of the National Union of Hosiery and knitwear Workers (NUHKW) full time officials told Socialist quiet "Blacking at the airport has been stepped up. You can draw your own conclusions on what I mean by that."

Presumably he means that blacking is being organised but the union wants to keep quiet about it since it would contravene the Tories' defence, Build workers' defence squads.

Mib, etc.), public accountability, etc:

nursery and childcare provision. paid the average for the trade. of the bankers and the bosses. recent anti-union legislation.

But if the blacking is carried out, how do you keep quiet about it then?

Reserve army

Newman has again been able to advertise for workers. A month ago the West of Scotland branch of SOGAT passed a motion blacking all adverts for Newman. Despite this, the Glasgow Evening Times, on two separate days last week, contained adverts for applications to work at the firm.

A number of applications were made on the following days but none were taken on. Newman told them that there were no vacancies at the moment and took their names and addresses for future reference.

So apart from the scabs now keeping production going, 1 ewman is up a re: erve army What next dispute? According NUHKW official pursuing the matter all remaining chanr practice this means waiting for ACA mobody even kno date of the next me the tribunal.

Mobilised If the working Glasgow is mobiliser trades council al Labour Party, the wr Glencroft can win dispute before ACA: up with its ir decision.

help, become a card-carrying supporter.

c/o 28 Middle Lane, London N8.

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Address ELP ding scab OI the through rels." In they are S. But ws the seting of class of d by the nd the orkers at 'in the S comes relevant GE production in the Cofton Hackett area.

BL say that the 1500 jobs affected will be cut through voluntary redundancy and 'natural wastage' Many workers at Longbridge fear that BL's real plan is to close down all engine and transmission production at the plant and bring in imported units from VW and Honda.

What is certain is that the so-called slimmingdown" operation will continue throughout the company until the unions take a firm stand and fight for a policy of work-sharing on full pay to defend jobs.

BL workers are increasingly willing to fight in defence of jobs as unemployment rises, and a successful fight on the wages issue this year would give workers the strength and confidence to turn the tide. ..Phone

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