climate figures real warning by 6%.
'wring! out of Healey, present trends, about 5% by the end of 1977.
As usual, to carry the main burden of the prejudices treeze vice cuts CRIA (Campaign will suffer the most.
Learning £50 a week can only 22, up to 28. can Jobless point labour extending the freeze is the Inal was the argument used to home! the rights. •emana dole queues, at this mark by the end of the year. such 'modernisel industry first productivity deals'. the loss of over 10,000 jobs.
Connivance by Healey is, in this sense, WORGES ARISE TRANSPORT & GENERAL WORKERS UNION half of the picture. Workers are expected to take drastic cuts in living standards to finance rationalisation schemes! which will lead to thousands more joining the dole queues. The government's declared aim of reducing the unemployment total to about 750, 000 by 1979 is pure fiction.
The government has only been able to get away with these capitalist policies because of the connivance of the TUC leaders who have been willing to stand idly by while living standards plummet and the dole queues grow longer than at any time since the thirties.
At no stage have they sought to put forward a clear alternative -an alternative based on the need to defend jobs and wages - and mobilise the labour movement to On the contrary, leading figures such as Jack Jones (architect the Social Contract) have been to the forefront in 'justifying' ine government's attacks. Calling for they have airected their main fire not against those labour leaders implementing proTory policies but those (in the Labour Party & unions) who have tried to challenge them. They have justified their position by claiming - as cia Jones. recently, at the Scottish TUC - that any opposition at this stage, o Labour can only lead to its downfall and the retur of a hard-line Tory government.
It is not opposition to Labour's a returnt of the Tories but the policies. however, which inreater NO TO THE SOCIAL CONTRACT Reject all wage curbs in favour of a return to free collective bargaining. agreements to safeguard against inflation.
FOR A 35-HOUR WEEK Reject all lay-offs. For the existing amount of work to be divided among the existing workforce with no loss of pay OPEN THE BOOKS No business secrets. Open the secret accounts of firms who refuse wage increases or work-sharing to workers' representatives.
NATIONALISE UNDER WORKERS' CONTROL Unlike the TUC proposal of increased subsidies for firms threatening mass lay-offs, workers' plan for production.
PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM VE In order to absorb the unemployed, oppose all cuts in public spending and demand the labour and materials standing idly by be used to improve housing, hospitals and schools. Labour supporters. The • recen local election results in whic Labour suffered a dramatic set back are an indication ot where the government's policies have le and where they will continue lead unless a strong opposition is soon mounted within the ranks the labour movement. Action Programme Fortunately, ever-wicer aven are beginning to see through the 'blackmail' attempts by the TU Headers. The growing oppositio to the Ipay deal! in unions such a the NUM or AEUW is a clea indication of the mood building for a real challenge to the pro capitalist policies of the preser This opposition ha cover nichl. already, began to assume a mor central focus in the mass action launched last month by Scottis workers against the savage so ial service curs and, more ly, that lauriched on May 26 aga st the high jobless total. For this growing opposition t be effective, however, ions cannot be allowed to rema at the level of mere protests! no doubt, the Communist Party its allies among the left Lad MPs would like. • They. must a as a springboard for carrying ti fight into the labour movement into the trade unions & Labo Party branches -for a program based on the interests of workir people. The labour leaders mu be forced to challenge head -the government's pro-Tory icies and demand it implemer those in the interests of workin people who put it into office ba in 1974.
The policies put forward by th CP and Labour lents are not d inadequate in this respect. Callin for limport controls and, in so cases, for reduced work permit at a time of rapidly-rising unem loyment can be positively danger ous by helping to foment divisic in the workforce. What is need is a programme which will unit that workforce and not divide one that can bring together bo the employed and unemployed in single struggle to force the gov nment to abandon its pro• else replace it w policies or one that will.
Such a programme, fought boldly in the labour movemer can offer a real perspective thousands at present demoralis by the government's policies. can also ensure that the Torie defeated by the miners! resolu action in 1914, are kept our office for good.
For a cost-of-living clause inbuilt into all wage nationalise them as part of a