Belfast Car Factory £50m in Bosses Pockets Fcoalisland March : All Out on August
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the Coslisland Gonference last represents is a unity from above, Bof the ant i-imperialist movement. fused spenking rights es have the telecine, Tea hap and the EPSP despite the fact that it has p these will be represented on the Fed the same reason there has not Bresemblances bo the type of unity unite and fight back. The CoalisBproposed by PD/MSR at the Vostis- and demonstration represents the fiend Conference. .Then organisational: pest chance for some time. The Becusrianiam preyented this sory anti-imperislist movement is movof unity from Deing realised but ing towards unity - your presence hopefully he Tyrone demonstration cold help make that unity a realit B The coming August 27th Bdemonstration from Coalisiand to Blungannon is the most important ortunity for anti-imperislist Bene & since the discussions at February. The demonstration has been organiced by Tyrone RAC and has the support of major sections Burge «ll socialiste and antiBaimperialists to support the march. B Irénically, the platform bears 3 Weeks, on the promise of payment when a new clothing order had been met, Bonte's flight fron the country, leaving a trail of debts behind him was merely the last straw. le had in the past denied the basic right to join a trade union, by sacking a wemen employee for refusing to sign an undertaking not to Join a trade-union. No taxes or efsurance stamps had been pald so that the IDA had refused to give the factory 4 grant because it did not meet’
the needs apecified, of united action.
has its wealmesses. The unity it Nations like TUCAR have been reoo ore Lube ifast Relatives Action Committees. pany oc aie Sanicuts many comrades ‘on the blanket".
Independence Party. We in FD/MSR fae ere crease and we urgently need to were jeopardised, by the exploits of a get rich quick foreign“investor, It is the Plays the ground for such villans as Bonte, to provide jobs and in this case comhad recieved support from Councils, north and south, but it was demanding action from the government that won them back their wages, will demonstrate the effectiveness — But the Tyrone demonstration Be organised by a private committee.
J For this reason important organisRepression comtinues to inOnce again workers jobs responsibility of the Southern fovernment, whose policy ‘ of encouraging foreign investment pensation for wages lost, for such workers, The women Dublin and) Drogheda , Trade the womans movement thelr swift turn to a campaign | subsidies could offset the trans port costs. De Lorean is getting)
& massive subsidy: the British | government is putting up about £45 million out of the £65m cost of the venture and it will probably transpire that they are | lending him most of the rest of it at low interest rates.
| - Tt's doubtful if even that i will be enough. The Southern Industrial Development Authority which hes financed alot of flyby-night capitalists in its time offered De Lorean £37m to go to Tq wrick but called off the deal when he wanted more money becaus¢ @ they reckoned it was too risky. | @ Workers in West Belfast shouldquit get too excited about this venture. It looks like a colossa gimmick by Mason to give the inPression that he's-doing something about unemployment. Mason Iwon't be in the North in a coupla¢ of years time to carry the can i the whole thing flops. On the other hand if labour wins the next election in Britain he can ;always boast about this ‘achieve iment’ when he's looking for promotion in the new government. | Byen if the car-firm keeps @ going for a while, the workers @ will need to watch out. De @ lorean seid thet apart from the | @ money, the main thing thet attracted him to the North wes e the low strike-rate. In other words he's locking for a docile social ehift-hours without @ compleaint. But ite no solution @ to the unemployment problem to in chesp labour and easy money.
Mason's £45m would be alot better spent in a socialist republic in developing industries based on the natural resources of the country.
The importance of the Confexim affair was shown when a similar strike broke out In Bunbeg co Donegal immediately afterwards, (It has now been settled)
The Confexim women are considering further action to win a guarantee of their jobs,]| Trade Unionist#, Socialists and anti-imperialists should stand ready to support them | and to contribute to the fightback against the governments attack on/ workers' jobs and living standards,
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