The unemployment rate among workers under 25 is running at 11½ per cent - double the national average. One sixth of all colege graduates are stur unempioyed six monts arter com pleting tneir courses. Nearty nai of all students of arcaitecture, planners and engineers are unable to get jobs in their field after completing training. Nearly halt of those leaving school in 19/5 called to tackle. There is a real danger that unemployment could cut off this section of the working class from the trade union movement altocetner, untortunatery tne porcies out Torware at the conterence ov me communistrar whien estao ence mace no mengon or acuvv on tne cuestion or wace te straint ano curs in puDlic soenoino - te mam oulars or tne capitalist attack on workers ving standards. wor dia tney call womeH. This was the situation which the recent Manchester conference policies of its "left' allies like Scanlon. They should meanwhile to a sub-committee elected by its own unelected committee on the grounds that there was no time to discuss them - although top conterence tinisneo an nour anead or schedliet t succeeced in this manoeuvre only by denying voting rights to delegates from branches of the Labour Party Young Socialists.
While militants should support any initiatives that may come from CAYU, it would be illusory to think that the CP will allow it to escape from the tight restrictions imposed by the scabbing campaian for independent action around the following demands:
No to incomes policy; restore the cuts in public spending; for a procramme or useru public works, tne rignt to work Tor allespecially women and blacks; for the trade unions to organise Ine unemploved, torm voutn committees in every union. Torm a TUC Youth Committee; no redundancies - including voluntary: maintain manning levels - not overtime; maintain apprenticeships; extend day and block release programmes; increase government training programmes at union rates; guaranteed jobs for all school leavers and trainees.
This especially means organising large contingents on the 26 May Dav of Action and the 16 June lobby of the specia TUC conference, not just to protest against unemployment but to noniant the tantino policies needeo to inrow back ine Government's anti-working class offensive.
Linda Simon (Birmingham Trades Council delegate) them. city always highlights how well-off a married man with two children is supposed to be under the deal? Yet the increase in child allowance was automatic, not conditional on acceptance That only leaves the miserly increase in personal allowances, which could have been gained by a wage rise as low as voo Der week tora sume person o £1.48 for a married couple (figures from the reasury s economic rrogress Kepor No. 73, April 1976).
The ability to manipulate taxation levels is just another weapon in the ruling class's armoury. The trend in per so:al taxation since 1945 has been to согрогае тоге ло more or tne tower paid into the taxable field, whilst the proportion paid by the richest 1 per cent or une voouianon nas decunec significantly. There is nothing novel in Healey's use of so-called tax concessions to curb our pay. Nor, unfortunately. in our leaders' willingness to swallow
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were unable to find jobs - and the figures for 1976 are expected of the Campaign Against Youth Unemployment (CAYU) was
lished and controls the Campaign, will do little to alter this situation. The Declaration and other proposals adopted by the confer-
for creation of jobs through a programme of public works, or draw attention to the particular plight of young blacks and
When militants attending the conference attempted to put amendments along these lines, the CP proposed to refer them