ALL THREE YS RIGHT-TO-WORK MARCHES NOW ON THE ROAD SHOPPERS GIVE A WARM SEND-OFF

THE LIVERPOOL - London Work march is under way. The unemployed youth joined trade unionists in a 200-strong demonstration through the city on Saturday.

Workers out shopping cheered as the marchers shouted: •We demand the right to work throw the Tories out!' Marching in front of the Liverpool Right-to-Work Committee banner were playwright Jim Allen, playwright-actor Neville Smith and docker turned Many changes —including Labour front-bench-to end unemployment says Wesker on YS march MAUDE crowd of miners and oil reinery workers the 25-strong contingent set a brisk pace leg to Neath. The march was led out of go and march with them. Swansea by playwright Arnold Wesker and film director Roy mess since Heath took over. All Battersby.

'This is just the wing tip of a general protest movement delegate from the 2,500-strong want to align myself with,' Milford Haven complex, Wesker told Workers Press.

'No doubt there are very ing had pledged backing for the economic system for the Ei. Ho hanied over cas and al sound reasons within this march and offered to raise tragedy of unemployment, which £50. He handed over cash and a is why we can't allow it to go on. cheque for £13.

'But a quick reading of the faces across the Labour front bench shows that there are great many changes to be made told the meeting: there too.' On Saturday the YS marched made it clear over the last few through Swansea city centre to months what it has in store for kick-off meeting at the the working man--death, starvaYMCA. tion and unemployment.

Weekend shoppers blocked the pavements as the march went by and Right-to-Work collection be the year in which the worktins were practically filled.

Sixteen-year-old bricklayer Keith Spooner, until recently from Ireland said: I haven't unemployed for five months, worked for 18 months and I'm watched the march perched on JUST safety rail with a group of marching UP. That's why I'm skinhead friends.

He said: 'That's right. Kick the Paul Renna (19) said: "The Tories out, then we'll have some miners have proved that fighting jobs round here.' And pensioner Mrs Blodwyn and we're trying to rally support Evans, who rushed out of her like this from the working class house with neighbours to see as 'al whole to bring down the march, said: "Good luck to Heath.' LATENEWS NEWS DESK 01-720 2000 CIRCULATION 01-622 7029 actor, Peter Kerrigan.

Vauxhall Ellesmere Port AUEW stewards brought their banner. Bootle College of Further Education also sent a delegation.

"The march will be taken into every nook and cranny of the working class in the most practical way,' Cliff Slaughter, SLL Central Committee member, told a meeting afterwards.

'The leadership of the working class will be put on the spot. They will have to decide whether to support us or not.' He warned the audience that the Tories would plan a vicious Best erday in ay by a in Skewen, in the first them all. If I had good legs l'd 'The country's in a hell of a he thinks about is his yacht.' meeting afterwards Bevan Bretton, said a mass meetRoy Battersby, a member of ACTT freelance branch which has supported the march, "The Tory government has 'That is what this march Ibout. The year ing class fights back?

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'Around the slogan of uniting the employed and unemployed in a fight to force the Tories to resign, the march will lay the basis for the building of a new taaders of power, he said for the taking or e sal From the Pilkington rank-and-file committee Gerry Caughey warned from experience of betrayal by trade union leaders.

I'm an expert at discovering the enemies within the labour movement, the Judases. We Right-to-Work DAY 14—Peterlee APART FROM its political aim, there is another feature that is unique about our Rightto-Work march. That is the presence of girls.

As far as I know, no women went on the hunger marches during the 1930s, but we have three young unemployed girls who have stuck with us from Glasgow.

I took the opportunity this weekend in Jarrow and Sunderland to talk to them and they told me what made them make this long journey to London.

Two are from Renton notorious for its youth unemployment and the other lives in one of Glasgow's big housing schemes Maryhill is nearly. 16. Like all the youth in Renton she came out of school to find that life meant the dole or vicious exploitation in the 'cheap labour' factories throughout the Vale of Leven.

I've had one job. That was at Westclox. My sister got it for me, but the hours were terrible from 7 a.m. to 4 or 5 p.m. at night. I just felt terrible at the end of the day. Sometimes I went straight to sleep on the sofa and just wasted away my spare time.

'If I went out we just hung around the chip shop, but the police would come along and lift us if we were there after 10.30that's what life is like in Renton.' lane tried four times to get another job, without success. Eventually she left : Westclox.

'The work was killing me. I got about £12 in the pocket watch department. This was the basic. If you got over 400 watches, it was your own money on bonus. But this target was so high that no-one ever got above it.

*They keep on recruiting young giris from school, so the rates are bound to be low. It's going on all the time in the Vale. For a while they put me on the line. That meant I had to do my own target of 408 pieces and supplying the other girls with parts when they called out. It was hopeless. I couldn't keep up, so I left.' Jane was on the dole for five months, then she heard about the campaign.

was very surprised. imagined we would be sleeping outside under the hedges, but it's much more organized than that. I was quite impressed by this and it changed by mind about what I thought of the march.

'The support we have got has been terrific. It showed me that if vou got up and did something, there were workers everywhere Some thorkers would say to me:

"I have got a job, but you don't have one and you're marching for all the workers, so we need to support you."

•Because of this, I think it's possible now to get the Tories out. It makes you feel less isolated.' What kind of society would Jane like to see?

'One where things were normal and you don't have to live like we do in Renton. One where you can get married and bring up kids and know when they leave school they will get a decent job know the Tories and their real intentions. But the real danger lies in the people to whom we look for leadership', he said.

Greetings to the march were also brought by Birkenhead dock steward . Larry Cavanagh, who spoke of the struggle for work on the docks.

The march proper began yesterday when over 40 unemployed youth left the Pier Head for the 200-mile walk to London. They will be joined in the next week by others from St l Helens, Bolton, Manchester and Winsford. Girls on the w-march JANE HAMILTON PAULINE HOBBS VICKIE BRANNAN with good money!

Jane's friend Pauline Hobbs (18) has had a succession of jobs, each one worse than the last, until she has finally ended up on the dole.

She started in Edinburgh sewing buttonholes for up to seven days a week with a basic rate of £7.50. Then she moved to Renton and got a job in a local underwear factory-7 a.m. until 5 p.m., five days a week for £5.70. Like Jane, she found the production targets too high.

Then. she slipped down a pound to work at a Dumbarton supermarket. She had other jobs, but the only one she liked was helping in an old folks' home in Glasgow. But eventually she had to leave because they wanted an older person.

'On the dole I got no money to myself. I gave my mother the lot and she gave me a bit back for sweets. We could go to the pictures, but there was only one cinema and the same film plays all week. So mostly we hung around the chip shop and the police kept lifting us.

Our first stop Kirkby, where we will be guests of the Labour Club. They are laying on a stew.

Everyone was looking forward to St Helens last night. In August 1970, 250 glassworkers were sacked by Pilkington's for daring to strike. Today 70 of them are still on the dole and carrying on an unrelenting struggle for the right to work and strike.

Also in St i Helens is the second performance of the play "The English Revolution', written by Tom Kempinski and directed by Corin Redgrave.

Inen I decided to come on the march. I knew it was political, but not really much about the politics, except it was against the Tories.

I never really thought much about getting the Tories out. It was a bit beyond me. But in the areas where we have got support, it shows that this is possible. We didn't get much support in Carlisle because of the Labour Party and this shows them up. But in other places I have been collecting there are a lot of people who agree with us-they want to get the Tories out too.

"When I go back I'm,going to talk to people about the Right to-Work and getting the Tories out.' Vickie Brannan (16) has two 'O' levels. But qualifications don't count for much on the Glasgow labour market. No number of certificates can create jobs.

I was always socialist minded I think, but didn't really understand what struggle was until I tried to run a house on £3.60 a week.'—her contribution to what the family lives She has no father anc her brother and mother are both unemployed.

"The experience of trying to manage brought me up against reality and then I realized something had to be done about this situation.

I always have a feeling of anger and contempt for the bosses and the aristocratic class. But this is not enough really. If you want to get rid of them have to organize. It the youtu today don't do something it will mean their kids will be condemned to live the way we do or even worse.

"The march has given me a much broader outlook. At home I could on i see it front wa point view. thought should rise up and overthrow the government. But it was more or less an individual thing 'Going through the towns and villages we can get an experience of the labour movement. And anyone can see that there is a big chance of building the movement to deal with the Tories. It's up to us young people to do that.' I must say that Pauline, Jane and Vickie are a credit to the movement.

They have stuck this tough journey out with good humour and are now getting he big political benefits.

We set off from Sunderland to Peterlee in the opposite direction from a Labour Party YS march.

This was a national protest which mustered 350. With them walked Gordon Bagier the pro-Market Sunderland MP who has attacked our march. So we took up the slogan 'Labour traitors out, 'Bagier out'.

Students from Sunderland Polytechnic walked with us and gave £10. At Peterlee we were met by the trades council who marched with us into town and gave us a meal. The trades council secretary Fred Hartley said:

'We have our political differences, but thought it proper to make common cause with the YS to fight unemployment and indeed fight to force this government to resign'