union claims.
A second method, more indirect but extremely powerful, is through strict government restriction on the money supply as advocated by Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph, The idea is that claims over ten per cent would cause such a shortage of credit that firms would cut back their ordering, lay off workers and ultimately cause a rise in unemployment.
THE GRAND PLAN BY COMBINING control of the money supply, cash limits and the use of government buying and price powers Healey aims to tie togetber the whole of the ruling class power into a single bioc. Through the use of the twelve month rule and the refusal of the TUC to wage a united struggle Healey aims that the working class will only be able to fight as individual groups.
In a strugale between a united ruling class and a divided working class the CBl and the government calculate that the labour movement will be defeated and cuts in living standards imposed.
The Government has rejected any socialist way out of the present crisis, In consequence it was forced 10 'make capitalismn work' through the slashing attacks on living standards imposed by the wage controls, cuts, and unemployment of Phases 1 and 2. This led invitably to electoral disaster and the loss of the Labour majority in Parliament.
Desperately seeking to avoid che consequences of his policies, Callaghan rurned to the alliance with the Liberals. continuation of pro-capitalist strategy entailed by the Lib-Lab ETEAOSETNH greater lectoral disasters such as those al Ashfield and Saffron Walden.
Healey's budget is another step on the same suicidal course. The rigid enforcement of the 10 per cent wage controls and public spending cuts accepled by the Governmient and imposed as a condition for continuing the Pact br the Liberals means a head-on confrontation with the unions. This will make the Government yet more unpopular.
The Liberals, Tories, Ulster Unionists and all the rest can Public sector: 28,000 Britieh Siee star.
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sector:1 083,000 koal authority merual and cra workers in Englend 888833333:880088039258339000008833S008 choose their moment until the peak of unpopularity of the Government and then tura Labour out of office. To be jecred by the miners and applauded by the CBl is Callaghan's policy.
But st is the miners and the rest ot the working class and not che employers who represent the interests of the labour movement and provide votes for Labour against the Tories.
Healey' statement and the Lib Lab agreement is a suicide pact which Callaghan is asking the labour movement to share with the Government.
FIGHTING BACK THERE IS no way the Labour Government can be kept in office by accepting its present course and wallowing Healey's package. That road leads only to slashing living standards, the return of the Tories, and the consolidation of the control of Callaghan, ZR MEL wome aca bitten Orns Hos e 10 Leyland car Wrens at Longir idoe 5,000 manua and crat workers in the weter sarce tor: 238,000 ancillary workers in the NHS JANUART 16,500 British Stoct manua workem; 50,000 Brills alrays marual workers: 43,000 cae supply workers 10,000 maintenence workers in the NHS, 24,000 bus nua orvers al burtos, E CONUANT blic auctor: 30,000 aeciriciy supply technical sh ,001 British Leyland worker in Onfo sector: 100,000 manual acrera in electricity the 12 month rule.
against Phase Three.
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33.300 London Transport worker Prestat car workers 25, ode evenee bee baidla PANL SOMEr. TBS.LU Publie sector: s20. coa cestretty supply etat Private sector: 75,000 rampeciiding and reprinng JUNE Private sector: 600,000 building workers; 175,000 civil SOHEMpat in gas supe ,0 r alar sere 90, 0 incust al warkar in t%e Cill Servle Healey and their supporters over the labour movement.
But there is anther road. Fighting the 10 per cent norm and Defending living standard; through wage claims designed to compensate for Phases I and 2 and protected by automatic cost of living increases. Unifying the struggles Fighting for a t50 minimum Abolishing the cash limits system and replacing it with automatic cost of living increases in public expenditure to compensate for inflation. Fighting for the Right to Work. These are the beginning of the road to defending the working class. defeating the Tories, and changing the policies and leadership of the labour A united struggle to fight Phase Three, a united struggle to defear Callaghan and Healey, a united struggle for a socialist alternative; that is the task in the coming months.
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