B-Leyland stewards Anti-Tory action policy

Workers Press no. 294, 5 November 1970 · scan page 2

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A FIGHTING five-point gramme to beat back the attack on workers' right: unanimously adopted in Birmingham yesterday by senior stewards representing 200,000 BritishLeyland workers - the most powerful carcombine committee in western Europe.

Like the similar policy recently decided by the Swindon district committee the Amalgamated Engineers and Foundryworkers, it does not stop short at challenging the employers' drive for speed-up and unemployment.

It throws down the gauntlet of struggle to the governmentsponsored assault on thẻ working class on all fronts.

And the Leyland combine's trade union executive backs up its programme with plans for:

• An all-stewards' combine conference later this month, • A massive day of action and lobby of parliament by carworkers on December 8, • A demano idat Labour MPs fight the proposed u" • * legislation line by Here is the full text of the resolution moved from ford's BMC Service plant and endorsed by everyone present at yesterday's Birmingham meeting :

In consideration of the coming to power of the Tory government, and in view ot the preparations by the employers to attack wages and working conditions, this combine committee executive adopts the following programme:

1. Fight Measured - Day Work! No intensification of working conditions!

2. Full support for any group of workers engaged in the wages struggle!

3. Fight sackings! Any firm which cannot give seeurity to its workers should be nationalized under workers' control in line with the national policy of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions!

4. Full support for equal pay for women workers !

5. Complete rejection of any proposals for anti-union legislation !

6. Demand that the executive councils of unions call an immediate special conference of the Trades Union Congress before the laws go on the Statute Book !

This combine committee executive adopts this policy because it believes that this is the only programme that can stop the Tories taking back the gains that the working class has made.

Furthermore, this combine committee executive pledges itself to work in all the trade union organizations for the adoption of this policy.

LINE-BY-LINE

Labour MPs are to be invited to the all-stewards' conference—to take place on or about November 29 - and asked to begin line-by-line opposition to the plannec Industrial Relations Bill so as prowas