DEAD-ARRMAL ST ALBANS lobby Minister of Health Roland Moyle, who was visiting the local slum nospitar Six factories were closed in sunoon or ine marcn. wnich was aimed at securing a new hospital includes a workhouse built in 1880 anu a conccun or word war wo remporary nuts It also has a ward recently refitted at the cost of £84,000 the ward has idle since 1975 because the health authority has rerusco to pay tor me stan needed To run I Now the latest round of Labmeant that plans to build an entirely new hospital have been scrapped. Which is why it is imoonant inat a central bart or ine local campaign for the new hospital should have opposition to all cuts in public spending.
This the local Communist Party ana Labour carry eagersnio orine campaign has refused to do, saying that such a stand would upset orderessive they have roped into the campaign.
policy their real wages boosting profits. But for the car bosses parcel of participation schemes, and narrowed These problems of the flexibility:
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the mutants in te car inaustry are tignting Tor in the standard of living of the whole working class youth high and dry in The name or Texiony automatically for the effects of inflation.
EGA building, are bought off by the AHA, the unions, without central organisation, will be moppea up anterwards The best way of ensuring that the consultants do not sabotage the struggle is for the unions to de monstrate in practice an absolute resolve to do all they can in the We welcome the decision by British Leyland Combine Shop Stewards Committee to press for a cross-union, rank and file campaign against a new round of incomes The proposal, which will go for approval to a meeting o 600 senior shop stewards in Birmingham on 15 February reflects the anger of car workers at the steady erosion o Phases one and two of the Social Contract's wage res traint-the £6 limit and the 4½ per cent limit-have done their job well for the employers in cutting real wages and they have also prevented erective productivity deanng, wich is part anc differenemployers lie behind the campaign by certain sections of the ruling class for more But those views are also voiced by Derek Robinson Chairman of the Leyland Combine Committee and Commuch respected by Comedn executives for his level headed approach to emotive An example of this 'level-headedness' was the joint letter signed by Robinson and Derek Whittaker, managing director of Leyland, appealing to the Government for a more flexible pay policy from August. Robinson seeks to argue the case that a return to free collective bargaining in August is best for bosses and workers. But "flexibility' in •Ine moutn or vnitaker or vack vones is a very ameren thing from the free collective bargaining which rank and The flexibility of Jack Jones and Whittaker is within the framework of a wage-cut. not the reversal of the cuts made Robinson's letter, tar trom adding lustice to the car workers' case in the eyes of the rest of the working class can only sow suspicions that the Combine leadersnip is launching the campaign as a way of bringing pressure on the Government, leaving unskilled workers, women and It is also in line with the Communist Party tactics of directing their action towards an alliance with the left reformist trade union leaders. The Communist Party has done nothing for two years to fight incomes policy because of the support which that policy has been given from all shades of left' on the General Council. If they swing in line with Murray and Jones once again, it will be The best guarantee to prevent such a course is to give Ine planned conterence the widest puoncity, bulaing To it in all sections of the trade unions. Revolutionaries will be monune tor cemanos to oncce me sorenuai divisions caused by differentials, in particular for the class-wide alternative of a sliding scale of wages to compensate *fight for the site', including the taking over and running of the nosD a nemse ves Such a stance will also be the - most enrecuve way or ensurin widespread support from oth workers at Saturday's conferenc