fight over the forthcoming Budget. He is calling for a $4,000 million boost to the economy, twice the figure being considered by the Treasury.
policy committee which Bean chairs, calls for tax cuts and increased public spending, reports JONATHAN SILBERMAN. This, it is argued, will help to provide the necessary economic stimulus to create 1.5m johs. Benn's paper describes the extent of unemployment as "appalling'. It calls for the Government to expand the National Enterprise Board and impose import controls as added attacks on unemployment.
This, it is argued, will help to providethe necessary economic stimulus to create 1,5m jobs.
Benn's paper describes the extent of unemployment as "appalling. it calls forthe Government to expand the National TELLONS OUR ESTHES import controls as added attacks on unemployment.
But the picture of Tony Henn ployment is rapidly fading. Hu was shown by the backing he gave to the miners" incentive. scheme. The deal is certain to result in pit closures and redundancies, let alone its impact on safety standards and the fighting unity of the NUM.
Eneray Minister Benin is also ultimately responsible for le tinker drivers and power workers" claims. The power workers" union, the EEPTU, mat the cimployers on 15 February. The background to their clait is not only the decline real wage. brought about by 211 years of restraints, 20.000 1000 the already of some from the industry. Benn's poss tian on increased productivity can only increase thar toral. A paper, drawn up by the Labour Party's home The very idea in Bean's document thal pumping money inte the economy will lead autoployment is fallacious, when te строуста are ciany тети ing to invest. Moreover, those who do invest do so in order to increase the productheir profitahility, not employ BUS POPELES HYPOCRITICAL But assuming that Benn actSLIDE ILIES WERENES saying, heshould know that the biziest Bossible boost to the spending power of workers has nothing so do with Dality 19x cut which increase wages by 11.50 per week.
Even by his own standards. Been is hypocritical. Not only does he tail to back workers struggling to defend their living МЕДДЕ ВОГ ПО AC Cal nives with the most right-wing achieving this. The Government has plans — jointly with the oil companics - 10 break any future tanker drivers' strike through the army requisitionplace of the drivers.
The plan, Operation Raglan, TWICE CHOSE EASE POLES Socialist Worker. It provides into emergency divisions, contral nlaced in the hands a! the oil companies themsches! Again, the Minister in charge is Толу Непл.
Beno and the rest of the Labour leaders see salvation in co-operation with the oil com abore up the flagging balance of mission in The Sun on 4 Janfrom North Sea oil will not rise to £3,500m until the mid 1980s - and that's only a mere five per cent of the gross national product, Finally, the import controls which Ben calls for suggeSt that the solution to the prob IMS OF GENT WOrking class are to be Tound in This is not only reactionary controls save the jobs of miners thrown out of work by the Benn-backed incentive scheme?
Jobs could be crealed by an emergency programme or use ful public works. Redundancies could be prevented by nationa.ising firms chreatening to put workers on the dole queues and control. Jobs could be saved by cutting hours in order to share work with so loss in pay. Benn calls for none of this. pace deer hite more native badger little more than a puhat relations exercise designed to boost his own flagging image.
Clearly this is the solution outfitters and boilermakers at Swans should be lighting for, but they face in their 'nationalised' couployers a management which is proving every bir as ruthless as the private employers were Not only 1 management CINE CERE SCC MEISTER of in Newcastle meht over the len crumbs British shiphuilding is making available, it is also exploiting the willingness of the Communis: Party-dominated trade union leadership Govan Yard, Glasgow, to scab the Newcastle shipyard workers SEE LASTWUS SAUD SUWATE accepted the Polish order taken Sway ELod WOWERKLE was one more indication of the preency for B naticcal trade union response to the many problems facia shipyard workers ep and down LIC SAULE. thent out. I have soted Labour