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politically connected. Ine urban chaos. But there's to Seaga regarding his treat- another side to it: when he ment of the media and the floated the idea at the TUCvictimisation of Duncan, and Labour Party Liaison Comdivided between Duacan'si "'Lefts" soft underbelly of legal expenses and Struggle's nationalism and pandering 1o drive to quire its own the backwardness that exists clngs ea se boot-neets to speak on the break up of printie in the labour movement. CUS be holding Norman Atkinson stated of the te nationat war siructures and public meeting at Conway bluntly that the trade unions Hall on Thatsday September would not accept a t jack beat us senti And they'd be have lost all our nuclear quests for copies of the remark rightly condemned as right. cases. Phew, near miss? Ken Funer, CLS, I5 Alex Alan Fisher who argued it ander St, London W2 SNT. was the job of the tabour appeal shagid be rent to: "parroting prejudices" by torian to colcar publi- 8 a campaign to get people E.P. Thes labour his- THE Labour Party is launchROY Hattersley, fast making a name for himself as the brains of Labour's Right, has called for the Labour Party to commit itself to discrimination in employment in favour of young blacks.

"The time has come to change the law so employers, both public and private, are obliged to give them a fair deal. Without such affirmative action, young blacks and Asians will be held back permanently."

He's clearly worried that a society that offers them "nothing except despair and the dole" is driving itself damn tha rnad to increased LIVI NUUNT mittee, it laid bare the draft* into the factories - a movement such ideas.

Eric Heffer said that if the Labour Party discriminated in favour of blacks it would open the way for the fascists - a logic that would justify the mass deportation of the black population as a way of preventing racist violence.

Hattersley's not daft. He repeated the call, throwing down a clear challenge to the NEC that if they can support other "unpopular" policies and win the support of the electorate: "I hope they are prepared to evangelise for a fairer employment deal for the ethnic minorities. If they are not, there are others who are prepared to fight on their behalf.

It's up: the real Left in the Party fight for positive ration and TOOL CUL LALA LILON mank that ism. If dont the right wing wil t was a stick to Hattersley cist, has had his invitation to deliver the Dimbleby Lecture withdrawn on instructions from lan Trethowan, Director General of the BBC.

Perhaps they were worried by the apparently magical power of the Dimbleby Lecture to transform odd ideas into reality. Previous lecturers have been Roy Jenkins, floating the idea of a Centre Party, and Lord Denning arguing that dges should be given more ower over politicians.

* Thompson was intending ology. One whisper over air waves and we misht to claim all the benefits they're entitled to. It's estimated that £340 million in benefits go unclaimed. This is not what the Tories mean, however, when they talk about abuse. They spent 5,640 person years and £54 million on specialist antifraud and abuse investigation in 1980/81. And according to Hugh Rossi, Minister for Social Security, they estimate they've saved £40 million. You said it, Hugh!

YOUTH unemployment: first the good news... you are not alone. In nearly every OECD country (i.e. Western industrialised nations) the unemployment rate for youth is higher than for adults, and the gap is widonine In dead sad Shain. WUCHI IT. youth unes y gent pushing 30%.

Now tac news: it's all your fau elve been job. Differe have been 0g Sace the 1960s.

In Britab the average males rose from 45% of an adult male's in 1948 to 62% in 1977.

Not to worry, though, a solution is at hand: cheap labour. The Dutch have been forging ahead here. They have a legal minimum wage which applies to people of 23 and over, for every year below 23 It ' was reduced by 72%. But now: they've upped (or is it downed?) it to 10% for every year under 23.

Lest our national pride takes tumble here, Margaret Thatcher has rigged up a fiendishly clever scheme whereby employers are actoally bribed to pay young workers peanuts. Informed sources, though, think f idea won't take off because emplovers prefer the enth cheaper labour scheme of t (OPS w which costs that Fi have suggested employment - with ev ane heving a job and nob

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cialisi Orguniser August 13: 1981 Puge 2 Don't leave the claim in the hands of Grenville Hawley