N°8 SHIPBUILDING AND | IMGpapers 1976

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as far afield as the in March 1974, strike.

Act, frontation policies, of course, the TUC leaders queues lengthen.

living standards, Even now, as ine NuM -soar. according to the CBI, such as Merseyside, manning levels.

indicates Campaign ANDREW WIARD (REPORT) the Heath government was swept out of office by the miners It was the climax in a whole series of defeats suffered by the Tories as they tried to implement their threepronged attack upon the labour movement: through the Industrial Relations unemployment and incomes policy.

It is ironical that what the Tory government could not achieve, despite its conthe Wilson government has achieved in little less than two years without a murmer of real opposition. The reason for this lies, of course, in the connivance of the trade union leaders with the government's pro-capitalist strategy, cynically prepared to watch living standards plummet as the dole At no time during the past period have the TUC leaders (or the Labour lefts!) attempted to challenge Wilson's policies by putting forward a viable alternative based on the need to defend jobs and ana mobllising the labour movement to fight for it. The massive majority wilson won for his disastrous policy at the Labour Party conference, supported even by 'leftsi such as Foot, is proof of this.

when the dole queues are longer than for the past 30 years, the most they have done is to mouth a few 'concerned' phrases, hinting to the government that it may be difficult for them to continue selling the Social Contraci without a few token anti_ unemployment safeguards. The latest TUC package, presented to Healey for consideration, includes demands for limport controls! and increased subsidies tor tirms to maintain While Healey has accepted some or these proposals, his real attitude can be detected in his comment that there can, in the period ahead, be no as crase in unemployment.

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SOCIALIST ACTION

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On November 26th, over 20, 000 trade unionists lobt ed Parliament in protest against unemployment figures nearing the one and a half million mark and officially estimated to 'peak' over the two million Opposition