La traditionally high unemployment area.
'You'll never walk alone, the famous anthem of Liverpool foothall fans, is now the tune of Liverpool's unemployed. It's no ly August there are expected 1 2.000 jobles making the situation as bad possibly post-war boom' completely by. passed them. Traditional industries such as the docks, shipbuilding and construction have been in decline for decades, with no new industry to replace them.
week jobs in a botel. Four Jobs are still joing because most of the appaOne under tae for work is premises Even press picks stories up vacancy in the Knowi makes a great story for Fieet Street bur never a word in said about the 84,000 others in Mer seyside who are still left, wasting and hoping for work.
PACKAGE No wonder that the Manpower ervices Commission have sing ed out Knowsley and Liverpoo as two of the But what mean? What is the effect of the five-year package that Employment Secretary Albert Booth has wrapped up? Not a lot.
When the Government first announced is plan for youth unempioyment last inonen, a was backing to the 2i6s THIS SH project.
The employers are not enthusiastic, in a survey carried out by the Manpower Services Unemployment reached a new peak this month. 6.8 per cent of the total working population of England, Scotland, Wales and the Six Countles was out of work. Hardest hit were school-leavers and women. In fact, married women account for 10 per cent of the unemployment register in contrast to 5 per cent three years ago. And yet the percentages cannot give a true idea of what unemployment really means. MARK TURNBULL reports from Commssion last monen, 7s per intervieved said that they would cent of the 1,300 not support the Government's plans. The vast majority said they would not take on extra workers whatever incentives were offered, but they would rely getting more work out of their existing labour forces.
These Job creation schemes have given work to some people For new school leavers there's the fantastie sum of C18 a woeh PROMISES.PROMISES Amongst unemployed young poopic me promise and love cists of the | abour Government and the trade unions are met with the the National Assembly on Unemployment who indicated their reat poncern for the unemploy I in March 1976 have not beer ent have been the tan lent MPs in Liverpool - Enic Heffer and Eddie Loyden. hen the wage and conditio ims go in from 1 August 1 varking hours should be there Toe immediate grantng or 835-hour week would make a hig impact on the 1.6 million jobles figure. And it would he a good Basis to go on fighting ubtl there is a reduction weck withour loss of pay so that everyone has a job whether for 25 or 35 hours a week.
The demand for such a sliding scale of hours can unite the trade union movement and win back to its ranks the unemployed. Trade unions and other labour repite of it employed people ment should in their trade union and waive their union dues. their work, they spirit of rrade union strength and solidarity which has been lacking among the unemployed. on "Hah! And they sey we't doing nothing about unempigent!* REPRIEVED
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