tionary force.
In this they have been aided by a counterposed.
situation. It's not just the jobs of our husbands that are at stake. It's the jobs If one accepts Mrs. Willis' 'logic' doesn't press for a wage increase now, then one can only presume that they The publicity given to Mrs. Willis' role far outweighs her real significance port of the strike. These events again Spain. Scabbing role of some workers' wives led by Mrs Sheila Willis (left) was challenged by others led by Mrs Maureen Enever (right) if they are not to be used as a reac But despite their obvious seriousness about the strike, the plant leadership are approaching it purely from the point of view of a trade union struggle for wages. In fact Bob Morris has played into the hands of Chrysler and the Labour Government by accepting that wages and jobs are Mick Gosling We're not going to be used as cheap labour by this multinational company, he told a cheering mass meeting. 'If they can't pay a living wage will not work for Chrysler UK. I'd rather be unemployed.' But jobs and defence of living standards together are the key issues throughout the motor industry and the workers movement.
Solidarity must be mobilised through the 'Standing Committee" of the Birmingham Car Convenors Conference which met last week only to pass cliched resolutions against the Common Market and in favour of nationalisation without saying how to achieve any of these things.
The strike leadership also has to face up to where the money is going to come from for the wage increase If the strikers demanded the opening of the company's books-not just its car components sections-to turn one