Cowley because of their political beliefs.
subject the 13 to trial by media on the charge of being revolutionary socialists.
Management gave out their first press release on Wednesday. Journalists contacung une nirm were told that valy waN , disciplining the falsifying references.
journalists also told 'off the record' that the 13 were members of the International Marxist Group (fore-runner of the Socialist League).
The press dutifully took up the story and the Thursday's press was replete with stories of the Marxist 'moles'.
The Telegraph reported that the company nau lound out about the 13 by 'examining carefully jobs with the help of a firm of next day the management press campaigl was in Tuff swing.
obviously aware repercussions of admitting that it screened its recruits with assistance experts, had by time invented story about 'boasting workmates about now she got a JoD. BRITISH LEYLAND management have denied in response to a Socialist League press statement (see opposite) that they were sacking the 13 workers at But the whole course of events in the last week proves that management colluded with their press to The idea of a worker "supergrass' had some basis in reality with John Power, an ex-shop steward at tne denouncilg extremists.
But the company was intent on concealing its policy of screening militants and operating de facto black list.
Security The attempt to divert attention • to the "supergrass angle' conunued on rriday.
Stephanie Grant, of the 13 sacked. had been set up by the press as the person who had bragged to other workmates. To provide the press with the pictures of Steph they needed to make the story stick, gate security men turned her away from the plant when she arrived to have her appeal heard.
Press photographers TV film quickly gathered to take the pictures of steph that splashed under she-mole appeared the next head lines. sackings Were CHu While using the technicality false references manavenell actions.
when Alan CATCHINE "here signs Jelli By reitasing text, of 'Jobs which Leagut of this) Explosion press and in the initial response of the Confederation of British Industry for a general witch hunt in industry.
Some sections of the press fearing an industrial relations explosion dres sharply back this conclusion. Sunda! Times in an editorial Sunday 14 August asked:
did the 13 consider deception in the first place? It can have only been becaus they expected to blackballed if they applied under their real identities.' They expressed fears that *the industrial 1811perative of modern Britain be in danger obliterating many other considerations, such as the right to work and the right to be a militant,' citing in particular the proud boast of the Ford director that they rejected people who were unsuitable 'for any The Sundo: Tires went on to ask. Who exactl 'unsuitable? conspirators? Cardcarrying Trots? Or 'Maniss"? Ot perhaps straightforward activists as well. And where in the purge of the hard left. does the soft left begin? pearing at a press conSocialist udy, look unese questions up further.
political beliefs as an acunionists, member of the Party and the Labour Party young socialists, and a woman. were the reasons HanarCICIE Reason moved to get rid of her.
reason that she had lied to the management on her application form was because of her fear that management would reject her application otherwise.
In an interview in the Guardian on Tuesday, she denied that she had in any way deceived her C0• workers as to her political views. It was only manageChe had been forced to deceive.
spokes. persons spoke out for the right of the sacked. David Buckle. the local respondsaying that •with unemployment at its pre sent lered it is B01 sarpris tion people give false information Brian Mathers. IGW L organiser. stated that • If affiliaindividuals LUtS we are in ta ving then George Orwell.
'Anybody who lies cannot expect union support. But qualifications tempt to get a job'.
But the thing that worried him the most, he said, 'was the development that people are denied WOL because views. This is a develop.
which every democrat has to oppose. Absurd So the record is clear. The accusation that there was a plot to Subver ult unions at British Leyland has been shown be baseless and absurd. What had been revealed is the meish Ley and has sacked mechanisms which mutants for ter ponuical beliefs in the past and how LICY continuing that policy today.
If is in the interess of anyone who wants to de.
oppose the witch HALL COCHI THES hunt. defend those sacted Corley and all thos socialists *ho art threatened by the pro of 1984 of Margaret Thaicher
Socialist Action 18 August 1983