Masseys lead solidarity

Scan page 5

enough problems of our thạt by adding their weight own'. As it turned out, the -to resolutions and actions response at the mass meeting in support of Solidarity that was fantastic They almost: they cannot avoid joining in lifted the rafters with their with the reactionary arguenthusiasm. I think that the ments of Thatcher • and main reason for this was that Reagan, to break from their iKozlowski was there in passivity and abstention and From the Trades Council /nternational suh-committee Pat Lally pointed 1o the hypocrist of the Reagan campaign on Poland while US arms hack the junta in I:/ Sarador: a demonstration in solidarity with the Central American struggle is to he held in Oxford on WORKERS at Massey Ferguson, Coventry, have voted to black parts from the Ursus Tractor factory in Warsaw. Socialist Organiser spoke to a TGWU steward at Massey Ferguson who gave us this report.

"The company could easily implement our policy but they don't want to. They get the parts in exchange for technological information, so it would cost them to go elsewhere. There again, they don't want any trouble because they have three new tractors coming into production. So I think they wil agree to our "When we discussed it on the stewards' committee all the arguments for blacking were left wing. But then we've a long record of supporting other workers. We sent money to Massey Ferguson workers in Spain, for example.

"Before the mass meeting the main argument • against taking action was why should We,: we've got person.

There is quite a bit of disquiet on the lett in the city because people don't want to be seen as jumping on the Thatcher-Reagan band-wagon. But this doesn't appear to have been the motive in the minds of the Massey Ferguson workers, who clearly responded to an appeal for help from a brother worker.

Socialist Organiser supporters, speaking in support of resolutions backing Solidarity in Labour Party meetings, have found that reservations about open statements against the Polish crackdown are quite widespread and not confined to the Labour left.

Local supporters of the Polish Solidarity Campaign who helped to arrange Piotr Kozlowski's: : appeal. to Massey Ferguson workers, have called a public meeting to discuss extending the blacking to other relevant plants in the city, and developing other forms of solidarity action.

We urge those who fear let hi addine thair wubinht Join in the struggle for class Solidarity Campaign public meeting will be held on Friday 5 February at 7.30 pm in Room D14, Lanchester Polytechnic. Speakers will be from Massey Ferguson, the London PSC and Piotr Kozlowski, the departmental Solidarnoso convenor at the Ursus tractor plant in Warsaw.

THE LABOUR Party Intern¡tional Committee has fin-