THE MANAGEMENT at Crosfiedd's Electronics, North London, are making an all-out attempt to anash the five-wook-old redundancies. The rest of the workforce has heen locked out for two days a week official occupation of the tilling as against This follows the use on 14 April of a seah trucking company, guarded by 50 police, to shift more than to milbon warde of machines out of the plant This is the higgest use of police in an industrial dispule since 10 pickets were lifted off te scaffolden picket line at the Eldoe Square site in Newcastle in Inte January, It com firms the workers' suspicion that the owners, De La Rue, evestually intend to transfer all production out of London scrapping over 800 johs and not simply die With 40,000 industrial jobs disappeating from London every year and unemployment rising as high as 6 and 7 per cent in some North London boroughs, the workers see their struggle as a light to defend the right to work of all workers Resculutons of support and donations have incladed C10D
"Neither monetary inflation nor stabilisation can serve as slogans for the working class because these are but two ends of the same stick. Against a bounding rise in prices... one can fight only with the slogan of a sliding scale of wages. This means that collective agreements should assure an automatic rise in wages in relation to the Labour Government. Healey singled out threshold deals as playing 'an exceptionally damaging role' in the present economic crisis. What was this "exceptionally damaging role"? —they helped workers to increase in price of consumer goods.. DENNIS HEALEY'S BUDGET is another vicious kick in the teeth for the working class from the - Leon Trotsky: The Transitional Programme (1938) red weekly, 24 april 1975