"The NUM's here!' came the shout from a group of young miners in the thick of the mass picket outside the Nottingham Post on Saturday, their arms linked to journalists, printers and local militants -the sports edition reaching the streets.
The 1,000 pickets lost that battle, SLADE members showed that the 28 •lists sacked from the Post when they joined a national pay strike last January are vy do • The Post went to war against the unions six years ago, introduced HCH technology, printworkers are just as anxious as the journalists organisation.
The managing director т. Pole-Carew, HEWSKICK Sheriff of Nottingham, which has nothing whatever to do with the high level of arrests on the picket line, the heavy fines handed out by the Nottingham judiciary.
The NUJ now needs to implement the decision for a one-day national strike taken at the conference, and hold a series of such actions to prepare the way for the conference's other decision: to ballot on whether to hold an all-out national The sacked ioumaists producing a weekly newspaper, the Nottingham achieved a local circulation of over 10,000, It would help if this paper supported the labour movement. Last week's issue didn't even mention the journalists' own picket.
THE WORKERS in the Company, who through the ten per cent pay limit in 1977 with an all-out strike, and who last yval woll pay wan apore Locis Healey's five per their new pay claim last week. The claim includes: • A £25 per week rise in basic wages • An extra five days holiday a year (bringing it up to 5 weeks annually) • For all negotiations to discuss pounds and pence, not percentages • For the annual wage deals to be dated from May 20 as from next year. This in effect makes the present claim For the rich:
into Howe's Budget. means on their their income after tax when it first been £12,600 and and £15,700.
For the poor:
the is High into their pocket.
That's an increase cent.
union's annual no increase at all.
mean The WILI index, while Dy lue cou or tne year.
The Low Pay these conclusions:
smashed families WaCK So if vou cent formulated will ensure you lose out.
Moreover, take into effect of the budget on down Interstrike A married person earning £25,000 a year will be putting a neat £3,000 extra pockets a result of In other words, before the Budget would have now it will be That's an increase of 25 per cent.
A married person earning f2,000 will only be putting an extra £70 a year Their former income after tax was £1,880, and now it will be £1,950.
of 3.66 per Of course, for the millions of anemoloved on social security and unemployment benefits it will mean And for the millions who already paid no tax on their earnings it will higher prices and absolutely nothing extra to pay for them.
Chancellor has predicted that his Budget will result in a 4 per cent increase in the retail price Treasury leaks point to 'an annual inflation rate of 20 per cent Unit has compared the effect of the VAT increases with that of the cuts in tax and formed For a family earning £60 a week the two aspects taken together will mean a weekly loss of 30p to 40p. Earning 235 a week, the same family would suffer a net loss of 29p.
The VAT and tax changes taken will mean a net loss for with incomes up to tiou a the two-thirds who earn less than S.01I a year, then the increases in VAT alone these migures do not account the inflationary prices They do not include, for example, forced by the cuts in the rate support By Dave Burn, Islington NALGO policy. grants to local councils.
They do not include the increases in petrol prices through higher duties, or the financial problems resulting the million lopped off nurseries' expenditure.
The government has announced that 1,300,000 people will not have to pay tax at all — but this does not necessarily make them better off. Many of these people were paying negligible tax anyway.
There is a dishonesty in the way this figure Treasury. The Rooker-Wise amendment to the tax laws ensures that the personal allowance (tax-free income) has to go up by at least the rate of proudly inflation each year. In other more this Tory 'concession' had have been anyway.
There's no question about it, the budget was good for the rich and presented by the Beit have made no attractive words; would have wall. implemented poor worse off.
London last summer. He was released pending appeal. Support for the campaign in solidarity with Piers and Jim Paton, the last of the defendants to come to trial, is urgent. Speakers and films available, from: Huntley Gc/o Camden Law Centre, 146 Kentish Town Rd, Abortion delegates. the organise • 10 'Nalgo supporting the sexist event, 'blue' comedians potentially disastrous for the poor.
then, Howe and Thatcher pretences about it They have said all along that the important thing was to make Britain for rich, through "incentives', and let the poor go to the the guise of offering us'choice', the Tories give the wealthy more money to spend and leave th much-publicised strip show for This event, organised by Blackpool branch, had been included in the official programme, and the stripper was only withdrawn after a big campaign by delegates who were promising to wreck the show.
A 60-strong picket supported by Left' supporters Liverpool protested at what was still a including as it did two
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SQUATTERS' leader Piers Corbyn was sentenced to 28 days in jail on 13 June for his part in opposing the mass eviction of the Huntley Street squat in