On the March

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TUC Pete Cashman is march coordinator for ALE • on the platform from стя threatened, so we're tryin march. And we want the marchers to P.. Butler, another member of the Serpell Committee, is a member of Peat, Marwick Mitchell which also just happened to receive £182,000 for acting as management consultants. In 1981 this firm received £1 million for auditing work for Bond's Rank Organisation!

One AUEW steward at Horwich summed up the hypocrisy of this "independent" charade.

"To expect the Serpell Committee to produce an independent review of BR would be like expecting Joseph Goebels to produce a neutral assessment of life in Auschwitz."

It is also clear that any notion of a free competition for tendering contracts for this work were never considered by the government. Neither have Travers Morgan any exprience, as an organisation, of rail. activities.

Further :, ti. ›vernment antics on Serpell to... y contradict their own arguments when motivating the case for the "privatisation" of local authority contracts previously carried out by Direct Labour Organisations. Apparently, the financial assessment of British Rail is that it is too big a fish to be allowed to fall victim to the arbitrariness of -the market place! the Ellesmere Port/Birkenhead stretch of the People's March feeder which starts from Shotton on May 7 and goes through Merseyside to Manchester. He told us: "As far as we are concerned, it is a labour movement march. We are approaching the clergy only for the use of church halls. On the Sunday we'll be holding a Festival, with a speaker Cammell Lairds shipyard, where redundancies are PEOPLES MARCH FOR JOBS ing to link up the march • with the direct struggle for jobs. Also, every marcher will get a form to join the TGWU: Our union branch, the 6/88, is centrally involved organising elect their own stewards"