Regissered with the Post Office as a newspaper. Published by Relocrest for Red Weekly, 182 Pemonville Road, London N.I. 101-837 6954, ey land's Cowley assembly plant, due t DESH COUCHDA CEC BEEN E 14! and "Maxi" ranges.
aw and ander return next week, and sup- be required for new work in August. But the nest will go into a transitional lahour pool at reduced pay.
At the same time the management will try to increase the work effort on the remaining lines, through the implementstion of Industrial Engineer (IE) studies. The victimisation of Alan Thornett, the Deputy senan swan autony, was principally due to the fact that he was the architect of the agreement whereby the implementation of TE studies has to be agreed with the shop stewards.
The victimisation of Thamett, and the defeat of the "Marina" workers who were defending the lE Agreement, has weakened the shop floor organisation. In this situarion the Transport and companyA fow of the men affected will be ahsorbed into existing vacancies, and 200 will anofler. increased work effort.
That's all we got behind us.
Printed by Socinist Worker Primers and Publishers Lid. (TU). Corbridge Works, Corbridge Crescar, London E2 9DS mitree has come out with ib report on charges made against Thorett hy the This clears Thornett, but recommends that the Senior and Deputy Senior shop stewards be clected directly instead of by elections through, to try to get rid of the present left-wing leadership. They also propose to split up the 5/55 hranch hetween the three factories it now covers which would give mangement the opportunity to play one factory off against If the Cowley workers are to resist the coming attacks it is necessary for the stewards to advance policies around which demand they have pat forward so far has heen for full pay for the pool workers.
This is correct. but must not he allowed to divert sitention from preparation for the main battles over redundancy and They should have prepared the membership to oppose the pool and to demand the aloring of orallable work loss of pay. But since this has not been £233.14 ARRIVED IN THE POST That was the final total for our May fund drive. Almost E70 less than the minimum we need each month to keep the paper going.
But we need to do much more than just keep the paper going. The urgen cy of the political situation demands that we strain every nerve to produce a 12-page Red Weekly by the autums. That means raising £400 and not £300 every month for our fund drive.
We are sure you can do it. You can't expect politics on the cheap, after all. To mount an effective fight for our politics we must have the resources So help us to report a massive improvement next week on the E27.14 s0 far received towerds the June total. All this has come from London, including another E8.64 from the IMG Equity fraction. What's happening in the rest of the country? Rush your donations to: REDWEEKLY FUND DRIVE, 97 Caledonian Road, London N.1. he necessary to fight for no reshondameies frow the pool and for the smet aisenance of the Morement of Labone agreement. to prevent discrimsation against militant SHEROES DU THINKIN To enforce these demands it will be necessary to maintain trade union organisa tion in the pool throup a representative action committer, cieered by the pool to deal with its immediate prohlems and above all, to prepare to fight redondancy Any redundancy will have to he fought on a factory basis, and because of twir lack of bargaining power the pool will have to prepare to use tactics like puckering and the company and help to fight for the support of other workens.
The shop-seconds must noet as sooc as possible to thrash out policies to deal with the coming attacks. Then there must be an immediate campaign to win support for these, to inform the membership of the agreements that prolect them, and to counter management propaganda Inal the workers have to pay with ibeir johs and industry,
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