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This is despite the fact that -according to one recent story Riccardo has even offered the Government the plant for nothing! If Chrysler workers continue to follow the advice of Bob Morris, Transport & General Workers Union convenor at the Stoke, Coventry plant, who told a recent mass meeting that Labour Government, they are in serious trouble.
Yet a fight back is possible. A mass meeting of seven thousand white collar and manual workers at a ghost-town if Chrysler closes -endorsed their stewards' demand that Chrysler be nationalised without compensation and that any attempt at closure be met by occupation. their jobs at Ryton or face months (if not years) on Coventry's 16,000 long dole queue.
But time is short. The 'difference' between Ricardo and Wilson is between total closure and mass redundancies. The Government's probable solution £25-£35 million to prop up the Stoke plant and part of the Linwood plant for just as long as knock-down sales to Iran last - will save only a few jobs.
Only the workers themselves can work out a plan for production which defends jobs and produces products for social need rather than private profit. this requires immediate opening of all Chrysler's books by workers committees in every plant.
Alternatives This will allow the workers to assess une causes ormne cuss mount a campaign demonstrating the need for nationalisation, and allow. them to begin to draw up plans for alternative uses of present plant and equipment. In collaboration with workers facing redundancies in the other car giants - Leyland, Ford and Vauxhall — a workers plan for the motor industry must be developed.
Chrysier workers can follow une example of their Italian brothers and sisters at the British Leyland subsidiary of Innocenti. In their struggle against 1,500 redundancies a solidarity strike of 300,000 metal workers in the city of Milan has already taken place.
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