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Red Weekly No. 88, 13 February 1975 · p. 1 of the scan · 257 words

The scan: rw-no88-feb-13-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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INSIDE - 4-PAGE SPECIAL ON THE FIGHT AGAINST SACKINGS and above all the control of the Fight must be placed in the hands of the whole workforce.

A solidarity campaign must be mounted throughout the steel industry. Plans are already in existence for 6,000 jobs disappearing at Shotton by 1980, East Moors at Cardirt will close by 1980 at the latest, the South Teessing Cleveland coke ovens, sinter plant and alast Furnace ate to shut down by 1978. Other closures are schoduled for Hartlepool und Shelton Bar at Scoke:

Elanwern: which is taking over the work now dorc at thha Vale. Is already on a tree day week, Today the axe hangs over Ebow Vale, tomo trow it will swing right over the whole British steel industry. This is why Ebow Vale must become the focus of a national fight apainst redundancies.

FORGE LINKS The Ebbw Vale workers must ube try and forge links with the miners who will also be affected by the closure of the plant. The part of the Ebbw Vale plant that i being closed steel rolling- is dependent on coal. The tin plate side of the operatson which 15 being Kept does not require coal.

These closures bave revealed that nationalisation alone is not cough to guarantee jobs. The demand for workers' control takes on a practical - FUND DRIVE divvy up a slice of their overtime pay.

are goug to get coptered next you can together and rush it in now to: Red Hdekly, 182 Pentonville Road, London, N.I

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