after their jobt This has allowed the bos The next step for the dockers, rather than simply demanding the re-definition bringing of all docks and wharves within demand for work-sharine with no loss of pay amongst all workers omplayed on the attempt by the dock bosses to introduce Little can be axpected from the trade union hureaucracy in the fight to defend jobs in the car industry if the record of the ALEW in the strike at BLMC a Castle Bromwich works is anything to go by.
The 600 striking toolroom workens who have heat out for six wooks in pursuit of a E1275 a week rise are continuing to resest attempts to foro a return to work. The claim was originally submitted in October, but BLMC have consistently refused to hold meaningful talks Their present ofler is loss than half what the toolroom workers are demanding The workers have also haul to contend with the full time officials in the AUEW. Twice they have polused orders Committee, and ate being supported bi this stand by the Birmingham ALEW Fast District Committee BLMC ane relusing to discuss Lie chim unless there is a retum to gork by Leo Murray in a apeech in Birming hain on 6 Murch, we arguing that the official negotiating procedure has not yor boon Billy exhausted. However it was the management who provoked the use this machinery:
The desire of the AUEW bureaucracy fot u roturn to work has little to do with the interests of the toolroom workers. It is an alternat to keen the ads quiet while Sir Don Ryder is busy investiguting the future of british Ecyland. Rumours are cisculating oven in the House of Commons that Ryder may demand Little trust can be put in the sadon officias to resist the incritably anti-working class proposals that Ryder will come up with to make BIMC a viable capitalist concern, if they cannot even bring themselves to support the Castle Draiwich workers in the struggle lo