forware to ine unions conterence in July, provides the means to fight on standards. next phase of Incomes Dolley. introduced ova _aDour Governmentand boliceo ov the leaders of the trade union La cost living escalator clause which or intiation.
In place of mass unemployment, he end of the year by Employment Albert Booth, or a so-nour week at ine run rate and for existing work to be shared out between all workers redundancies and a reduction in the WOTKHIC WEN kinds of intellectual acrobatics performed by the officials at Head Office who insisted that it was not reary a bay cut because i was necessary tor ral workers to lose 70p a week in order tor them to receive the full 26 which would not go on to their basic rate.
When it is remembered that the *overwneiming majority or rail work work on their depend on r pitifully low wages, make up their UnIS KINO bureaucranc surance secomes insultine Real Wages: In common with all TANTON other workers, railway employees 5 per cent pay rise while inflation continues unabated at 15 percent Concitions or work. because me Government is more moneylenders than creating jobs conditions Inose people lem rest day and industrv are sutterina overtime effects of gross under-investment.
Having to tolerate poor and inadequate transport is only one side of Toas Working conditions and thereamone nose Dresen ceoruary mass Doovo ranamer by telecommunications workers, protesting threatened in their Mansios workers from the multinationaliT Creees nanton. exoressine men concern at an industry apparentiy in a state of rapid decline. Behind this decline is:
unpredictable supply and demand in the industry the existing structure of th induste financial objectives of the Post Office -maximise profits regardless of the effect on jobs;
the threat which technological change poses both to the supplying nies like ITT, and within the Post Office itself;
InE: CombeLon multinationals sucn as ill, Ge and Plessey in their development of products Such problems are illustrated by recent developments at ITT Creeds. manacement nave staned produc TON OT new requires less parts and therefore ess production cordingly concerned underoiticult concitIons debt to work, UTTE living standards, not from Stop tore satety conditions surter ac The select few who are differentials yards and sidings are expected to Knuckie under ane Do them ob! which The London resolution shows public that rail workers are serving notice the days of servitude dubious capitalist notion of 'public Contract service areover. mendin points or Ine reso ution - ne siaine scalt of wages and hours — start from the of workers to defend their ment soonume or the bemands u RYLAND future.
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the management or the unions. Employers, particularly Plessey, call for massive advertising campaigns the Amalgamated Union of Engin eerine workers nave crucised as The unions on the other hand unwilling to mount a serious • Those the capitalist market than an insistence on ana tree ConectIve bargaining, tnese are the policies can unite workers including weakly organiscu common Hon acainst une socia A reacy many have motions for their conferences calling for support The NUR resolution does not rule our tree corlecuve barcain no ove and above automatic compensa tion for inflation. But it is based or compensate for inflation in the pas to providetna compensation in ine such Many working men and womer Labour and 1974 promised a genuine move toward. socialsm. ine Labour Party in government has shown just how hollow those promises were.
learning again the lesson that the Labour Party Cal never acnieve socialism is a nign This resolution shows that while the Labour Government has rencgee on to arouses a socialist ine workers wno voteo it in nave Birmingham.
But the fascists have not had it all their own way. They have been permanently harassed from one meeting hall to the next. But now the Tory council in Birmingham have alowed them to use me noser Civic Hall, a traditional meeting place for ine labour movement Birmingham Trades Council is mandate organise a National Front on 26 February, but at the time of writing has produced no leaflets, posters or other materials for a march which they propose to be held in Birmingham town centre.
So far left and immigrant organisations have formed a '26 February against Racism and Fascism Com mittee' to build a demonstration which willenc and material support to the immigran community in techloreon February. The demonstration will assembie on saturday, al 1.3upm. Adderley Park, Saltley, Birming INDEPENDENT Another measure accepted by the committee was for an independent anti-fascist, anti-racist campaign in ine stentord by-election with ar approach to the IMG, Socialist Workers Party and Labour Parti candidates for allocation of elec This proposal moved by IMG members, should hopefully receive a favourable response from the SWP candidate.
However, there has been no response from the "moderate Labour candidate to even appearance of fascist candidates let alone any indication that he will be prepared to support any action. That will fall to the black organisa dous ane une areru BRIAN HERON (Prospective IMG candidate for Stechford]. • All seats in the forthcoming May council elections in Leicester will be contested by the National Front. The fascists have high expectations of pulling off the electoral victory that they narrow/v missed in the las Around of elections. [They polled 43,000 votes, i.e. 18.5 per cent of the total vote.] Part of their preparations include unEW National Front HQ in Humberstone Gate, Leicester which cost over building was picketed on 10 February by over 70 people drawn from the local anti-fascist and anti-racist committees, the Labour Party and women'sgroups.
This action is part of the build up to a campaign under the title 'Stop the Front in May'
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