weeks at Balfour Darwin have decided to spread their fight throughout the Sheffield labour movement with factory meetings and a demonstration.
On Monday a mass meetiny of workers at the threatened Chrysler plant in Linwood, Scotland, endorsed a stewards' recommendation to occupy the factory if Chrysler pull out. Chrysler workers throughout the country will be organising a demonstration against American chairman John Ricardo when he arrives in London to discuss his carve-up plans with Harold Wilson, Darwin, Chrysler and other factories who are leading the fight against sackings. It is they also who must lead the giant jobs demo on 26 November. The lobby, called by the North West region of the TUC, must be seized as the opportunity to launch a solidarity campaign throughout the labour movement in support of workers striking or occupying to defend their jobs.
Massive support continues to roll in for the demonstration despite the sabotaging efforts of the General Council of the TUC.
Far from attempting to sabotage the lobby by telling trades councils not to participate, the TUC should be supporting all struggles against redundancies and should adopt as official policy the call for workers to occupy against threats of sackings.
The role of the 'lefts' in the Labour Party has been no better. A few have at last spoken in support of the lobby and against the TUC's position, but none have been touring the ALL OUT ON NOV. 26 people will be able to draw their own conclusions about his left talk.
The militants brought together on the 26 November lobby can become the striking force to establish Right to Work committees in every area, with the aim of hammering out common jobs policies and actions to defend all workers against redundancies. At the top of their list of priorities should be the mobilisa tion of mass support for workers in any area who go into strike action or occupation against redundancies.
red weekly b november 1975