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THE Tories plans were announced before the harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but the view that direct action against the lories is 1979 election. "Our economy has been pushed into it does not do much good if you are steering , full feasible and should be avoided or stopped a loss of profit" , said Margaret Thatcher. 'The situ- speed ahead for the rocks. And that is what the ation can only be put to rights it considerable price "The Parliamentary draughtsmen have been at Government is now doing." His views are shared by NEDE , and plenty of them serve on Government rises can be made and accepted without any response "1. Placing trade union funds at risk if their the ‹ Bitully agrees with I natcher on wages, but Now they. have announced a new stage. The members engage in political strikes, secondary wants increased public spending on capital projects the Tory cuts, and Labour MP:, apart from one brict 'norm' for publie service pay rises next year will be (and more cuts on current expenditure). Intluential show of defiance, have done nothing but politely 4%c, while inflation is running at I' and unlikely to "2. Making trade unionists 'contract in' to the bosses' journals like the financial Times and the political funds which finance the Labour Party Economist query Thatcher's tactics for attacking the Some employers, encouraged by the Tories, had instead of having to pay up unless they 'contract ment has been openly, dearly challenging the line already taken 4% as their figure too - liks Vaushall. In face of the growing clamour of the wets' that restoration of profite levels i.e. capitalist BL may go for a similar amount, and Lucas have *'3. Insisting that all trade union elections are Thatcher had to concede or counter-attack. She has 'viability' is the first priority. None has said that counter-attacked, hardening the line of the Govern- the first priority must be to safeguard wages and Hoover, British Airways, and Pan Am have ment, and will seek to strengthen her position by jobs with automatic cost of living increases on demanded money wage cuts. The West Midlands CBI new spectacular victories over the working class. pay, and work-sharing without loss of pay and has recommended other firms to follow their But there is a growing will for a fightback in the that it the present system cannot provide that, then example, and national CBI leaders commented that working class. No longer is there a mood of waiting many firms could not 'afford" as much as 4°c. Full scale implementation of these proposals resignedly until the crisis is past. More and more The Tories and the bosses are out to cut workers' would make Heath's Industrial Relations Act seem workers see that the Tory attacks are not a passing movement to 'disengage' from the institutions of living standards drastically - by 10°, 20%c, or how- like a pinprick, and the Tories may well be more problem, but will continue and get worse until they Thatcherism. The new Tory assault makes it urgent ever much is necessary to repair the still-falling rate cautious. Nevertheless, more union-bashing is ahead from Tebbit, who said as he left his luxury flat on The Tories have just one great source of strength The announcement of the 4%c norm came straight the first morning of his new job, "All the talk about - the febbleness, the cowardice, and the inaction of draw from talks with the Tories, from the NEDC. after a Cabinet reshuffle in which the wets' Were less hours and more money is moonshine." and from Government committees and public sector sacked or shifted and monetarist hard-liners were This new stage of the Tory assault can be Last week in Blackpool there were plenty of loud Boards. Labour councils should defy the cuts. And promoted. The new Cabinet has immediately started speeches against the Tories. But all the TUC leaders Labour MPs - especially Left MPs -- should systemn• The reshuffle reflected the political weakness of plan to do about the Tories is... talk to them. atically and persistently filibuster, to hold up the And in the Guardian on Tuesday 15 September Thatcherism more than its strength. After being Ever since the end of the steel strike last year, the Tories' attacks in Parliament and sound the alarm. sacked, Tory minister lan Gilmour said, "It does no main trade union leaders have been committed to in the form of wage increases."

fall.

imposed a 5% figure. of profit.

-talks on more public spending cuts.

• Peter Jenkins reported:

Dave Ayrton At a meeting of some 60 labour movement delegates in Sheffield on Saturday 1? September, plans_were discussed for the TransPennine „March. The existing South Yorkshire Steering Committee for the march was endorsed and an extra five members elected.

The march - organised by the People's Campaign for Jobs, which is carrying on the Peoples March for Jobs campaign - starts on October 7 in Shettield, ano ends in Blackpool on out' shops.

Wing. defeated.

October 16 with a demonstration outside the Tory Party conference.

Although the TransPennine March has no political demands, other than support for the TUC Campaign for Jobs, it does have a labour movement orientation - unlike the People's March, which was supposed to be 'non-political' , despite the fact that 99.9% of its support came from the labour movement.

Another major difference is that it looks increasingly "Norman Tebbit goes to Employment with instructions book at the trade unions..

work on the following options:

embargoes or other illegal action.

conducted by secret ballot.

"4. Strengthening the safeguards against closed "5. Tightening the law against secondary picketunite with the Right to Work march from Liverpoo! - despite initial opposition from the bureaucratic leadership of the Trans-Pennine March.

Both marches should be fully supported by all labour movement activists, and SO should the call tor unity.

For details of the TransPennine March, contact Albert Bedford, Transport House: Sheffield (phone 71323), or Bill Innes, 40 Park Lane, Leeds (phone 458442). For the Right to Work march: Right to Work Campaign, 265a Seven Sisters Road, London N4. the Department of to throw the statute working class. are stopped.

the TUC leaders.

UNEMPLOYED movements from Rotherham, Barnsley, and Sheffield have decided to launch a South Yorkshire Federation of unemployed movements, and hope to expand to a Yorkshire and Humberside federation. Contacts have already been made with Hull.

The federation will be supporting the national unemployed conference in London on October 31, and will be campaigning for free bus fares for the unemployed. strong sections of the ruling class.

Thousands marched to Brighton committees or public sector Boards.

debate in Parliament: it should be replaced.

for activists to take up this call.

MISI KICK. OUT THE TOI last year: more will go to Blackpool 7.0» NTORI this October

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likely that the Trans-Pennine March, in its later stages, will

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