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Jonesand Scanlon join jobs attack

Red Weekly No. 138, 19 February 1976 · p. 3 of the scan · 329 words

The scan: rw-no138-feb-19-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 3 of the scan

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except the fact that he is playing And the TUC leaders are cynically using as chips the livelihood of the working class who place their trust in them.

Murray will not expose the game as rigged - he continuously declares the benefits that Government policy will bring, if only we will wait a little longer'. behind Labour's lies must be exposed in every trade union branch and labour movement in the country to back up the demand that the TUC must be recalled another boost) - or from readjusting the tax structure so that what you win on the swings you lose on The overall intention of the plan Living standards Healey has nothing in his hand with people who want him to win.

industry.

The truth AUEW and Jack Jones of the T & GWU have agreed to join with the car bosses and the Government in their project of running down the British car industry. Jones and Scanlon (the latter still nominally part of the "Broad Left' in his union) will be holding hands with Industry Minister Eric Varley, Mr Terence Beckett (Ford), Mr Alex Park (British Leyland), Mr Robert Price (Vauxhall), and Mr Gilbert Hunt (Chrysler) in a group set up to implement the Chequers policy of 'profitability first in the car Announcing the formation of the group in Parliament, Varley made it clear that its job would be to run down Chrysler in Britain and lay the basis for a car industry in the 1980s with high productivity, rationalisation of plants, and reduction of assembly capacity. This blatant collaboration with the bosses should be condemned by every section of the labour movement. AUEW and T & G members should table motions demanding that Jones and Scanlon immediately cease plotting with the bosses on the best methods of achieving redundancies in the car industry and instead start supporting their members who are fighting for jobs.

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