aspects of the Chile solidarity movement has been the campaign to extend the blacking of Chilean trade.
The effect of successful boycotts on the junta cannot be underestimated. Yet there has only really been one area in Britain where blacking has been taken up in a serious way - the West of Scotland.
A greet victory for the solidarity movement was chanceo up last banary when the Chilean Junta was forced to relase Carmen Castillo (above), wounded companion of dead MIR leader Mig uel Enriquez, She is now recuperating At Rolls-Royce, East Kilbride, workers ate continuing to black six Avon engines for the Chilean Executive Council of the AUEW and notably one of its right-wing members, John Boyd.
The AUEW has asked the shop stewards committee to lift the black, since Roih-Royce is a nationalised company and the boycott could damage its position.
But the workers have so far resisted this pressure, and the oflect has been clear The junta has now demanded £10 million in compensation from the Labour Government for the Joss of the engines. resistance.
equip the Air Force by buying A-37 Cessna spotter planes and Northrop F-5E jet fighters from the USA. But here too they are having trouble, with moves in Congress to make any arms of the policy of repression". SUBMARINES While the blacking at East ive action, there are also several Their absence land where boycott action has the El Bosquc Air Base have so far been arrested in connection with this act of sabotage by the Chilean The junta is now trying to resales conditional on a relaxation action here too Kilbride has been the most effectother places in the West of Scot- cotted. Lithgow's yards in Greenack. This tolluws the example by naval dockers at Rosyth, who refused to work on the frigites last April.
The submarines themselves have run into trouble. After being laun ched at the turn of the your, they have hoth developed technical taults in their pressure cubes. They are now back at acuu-Latngow's and it i thought that it will take months to repair them which reopens the possibility of some Blacking is also taking place at Weir's of Catheart, where work ou pumps for Chilean trigates, being repaired in Newcastle, is being boyAs the situation with Rollspaign.
On the contrary, they have gone along with ine other capitalist countrics in the 'Club of Paris in extending the loan facilities which have allowed the junta to purchase this weaponry and consolidate its repressive hold over the workers and peasants in Not a penny, not a gun aid, no tride must be the key slogan. which the solidarity campaign nghts to take into the labour movement over the next fes months. In particular, the demand must be raised that the Labour Government shoula refuse to hand over the submarines to the junta now that their delivery has been held up.
Similarly, the attempts by the Labour and trade union buresuerabs to lift the Rolls-Royce blacking must be strenously opposed. The rest of the AUEW and the labour movement must rally to the side of the East Kilbride workers as a first step towards extending the blacking campaign.
The present situation in Chile - Where, as we report elsewhere, the repression is now being stepped up hy the junta in a desperate attempt to cancel out the effects of its worsening cconomic position rookes it still more vital that blacking is extended now, as a real concribution to the fight to overthrow the junta.
JAMES RIDGE 31 October 1974
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junta's Hawker-Hunter fighters. This is in defiance of the National