Splencia solidarity

Swindon workers in action behind councilmen PRODUCTION at two factories in Swindon came to a temporary stand-still yesterday as engineers demonstrated with council workers in the town. retormist with a tent, ropular Frontist programme.

He has no intention of establishing working class power in Chile.

But the circumstances surrounding his election make it plain that there can be no peaceful road to socialism, in Chile or anywhere else.

Despite managements' threats of reprisals contingents from all the main Swindon plants came to swell the ranks of an impressive 2,500 march.

The demonstration almost ended in violence when music from a nearby Territorial Army hall drowned a mass meeting.

Work was temporarily halted at R. A. Lister and most of the machine operatives at Square D electrical engineering left their work benches.

YOUTHFUL

Square D's youthful delegation of 150 was the most determined and spirited of the march.

Other groups came from the seven Plessey-Garrard plants and the railway workshops and housewives with prams joined the column as it made its way through the city centre.

Like the St Helens protest Thursday's Newcastle council march, the hostility of the working class to the Tory government demonstrated again Swindon.

TOGETHER

I think that the unions must stick together and fight against the Tories. We noW have seen their anti-union legislation and if they can now defeat the council workers, all of us will be in danger.

'That is why we are marching,' 22-year-old Josie Ingram, an assembly worker at Garrards' 103 factory told Workers Press.

Speaking for the AEF district committee which issued the demonstration call to engineers, Ray Howell, a convenor at Swinrailway workshops "The council workers are in the forefront of the fight against the Tory laws and this is the reason why the district committee made this call.' josie Ingrams: Stick together.