An open letter to cnlwives of Rolls« Royce Strikers
Rising prices hit all workers on a fixed wages The wage-earner has to make his money go further. We wives have to struggle round the shops trying to feed and clothe the family on an ever more useless amount. “What can we do about this? First of all, rising:prices nean’a profit for somebody - whatever the bosses say about, having to keep up with rising costs, They néver willingly let the workers have the true details of; their: profits.\ So what tHe wage-carner must demand is a greater share of these profits which are produced by his labour. = OF course, the bosses don't listen to.demands. . -Theyyonly;take notice of action. 411 the gains made by workers in the past fifty years have be n by militant union action. Thet is why the Bristol Socialist Womah Group calls! upon the . wives and families of Rolls Royee. workers to support the Rolls Royse strike, and to. refuse to accept. payment with strings attached, We must stop the bosses taking awey with one hand more:than they give with the other. We mist expose their lie that strikes are ruining the country = in 1968, 4,700,000 ‘days were lost through strikes. Compare this with the 146,000,000 dayslost through unemployment (in 1968) and the 524, ,000 000 days lost through illness and injury (in 1967)!! Let's put the blame where it belongs - on #he bnases, We know it's a strugele to ‘make do on what can bé squeexed out of the Saciat Security - far more thanthe normal weekly wage - but we must continue ther strike to show the bosses our strength, to pee wages. in line with ‘rising prices “. and get what is $ righfully ourse