LOCAL residents from Macclesfield, braved the rain yesterday morning to join the Young Socialists March for Jobs as it left the centre of the town on Day 14 of the march to the Trade Union Congress in Liverpool.
As the march assembled, Mr Grundy, a retired long distance truck driver who was in the T&G Union, told News Line: ‘The union leaders work hand in glove with the government. They always have done, they get big pay packets.
‘In this town they have presided over the closure of industry.
‘First the silk industry, then the closure of Hovis, now the pharmaceutical plant, Astrazeneca, is threatened by a £60 million bid from the US company Pfizer.
‘If that goes ahead it would absolutely obliterate this town, currently five or six thousand people are employed by the pharmaceutical plant and they spend the money from their wages in the town.
‘If they lose their jobs Macclesfield will suffer a slow death. I don’t think we should have any of these governments in power. I would march into Parliament and throw the lot of them out. I would do an Oliver Cromwell.
‘The general public and the working class have to form a government, not this lot with a silver spoon in their mouths.
‘I think it’s great that young people are having a crack at them. I say to the Young Socialists “You Go for It! Give those trade union leaders What For!” ’
Abercrombie who joined the march, along with other local residents as it left the square, said: ‘I have joined the YS march today, because when I bumped into these young men yesterday I was so impressed with their historic struggle. They are determined to highlight the fact that there are no jobs for young people.
‘There should be jobs, and we can make jobs, this country can turn around this economy by producing instead of consuming imports.
‘I wish them the best of luck on their way up to Liverpool. The fight has to come from the youth, it then flows through all other generations.’
