300 WOMEN, members of the Engineering Union (AUEW), are out on an equal pay strike at Trico, a car components factory in brentord, west London. Ene management tried to fob off the women's demand for equal pay by giving them E1 extra last year, which still left them £4.75 below what the men production workers earn. One of the tricks management tried to pull was to reduce some of the men's pay to that of the women.
But the women would have none of strike was official. Asked at a mass meeting last Thursday 'why the men haven't come out, and that they'd better come out quick', he replied: I don't want any funny business, these things take time."
Although the support of all the workers in the factory is a key issue, the women themselves are determined to stay out until management delivers the goods. "The management doesn't want to talk to us, because they think we women are too weak to win, but we can play a leading role in ensuring a successful outcome to the strike, as the firm supplies windscreen wipers to Ford, Vauxhall, Rolls Royce and Chrysler. If workers from these firms were to black the Trico parts, the pressure on management would be enormous.
other demands as official instructions if its recent conterence decision to adopt the Working Women's Charter is Hard bearer.
At Trico, workers in the car industry The AUEW should circulate this and Enoch Powell. I stand by all the speeches I have made on this issue in the last ten years. but I will not be interrogated about this apparent violence!
The man? Enoch Powell. The issue? Race. Try as Powell might to evade responsibility for the race killings there is no doubt in the minds of the racist seum who carry out these attacks that Powell is their stand Those who now leap to the defence of Powell, still embroider the tattered flags of 'free speech'. But that free speech was only the product of years of struggle by the trade unions and the political organisations of the working class. The tightening of the immigration laws that Powell suggests would limit the rights of black people. And a blow suffered by one section of the working class is a deprivation of the unity and rights of the whole labour movement.
Powell's speeches also give a respectable gloss to the far right organisations whose platforms extend far beyond those of racialism, the right to organise in trade unions, the right to strike, freedom of assembly.
Despite the National Front's boasts, it is Powell who has made racialism respectable and by making racism respectable, made the National Front and other fascist vermin like Robert Relf heroes.
That is why there can be no platform for racists. No platform for