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Council trade unionists in Islington have drafted a 'support Labour' leaflet for distribution to council workers. And the London Labour Party is preparing a number of drafts, including the one below on LABOUR is against incomes 'Employment Act' It is black people who bear the brunt of Tory attacks on workers' living • The police have been given more arbitrary powers;

These attacks on black workers are only a part of the Tory assault or • Repeal of the racist Nationality Act and the 1971 Immigration • An end to discrimination in jobs, housing and education. • Socialist measures to rebuild the economy and provide real jobs and THE HEAVIEST burden of every one of the Tories' attacks has fallen upon women.

Two million are out of work - having lost their jobs or been removed from the workforce by Thatcher's policies of slump and cuts in the public sector.

Textile jobs have dropped by 34%; leather jobs by 27%, clothing and footwear by 29%, along with vast cutbacks in light engineering and other industries in which women workers British Rail fares are 67% higher than in 1979, much more than the rise in prices generally. Bus fares have increased 77% on average since 1979.

Some communities have lost their services altogether. Many more have become virtual ghost towns in the evenings and on Sundays.

Since 1980, four fifths of Britain's local authority social services departments have been forced to reduce levels of provision. for the hunded dasicary hands

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PHOTO: JOHN HARRIS NO WAGE CONTROLS! policy because it hits the low paid. The only people whose wages' are never controlled FREE TRADE UNIONS as, heriers, speholders, judg| THE Tories say there are no company directors. wage controls but we have suffered from them for the last Council workers, especially in four years. ow paid jobs are always the The Tories' 'cash limits' irst to suffer. The only 'wages have been used to keep our policy' that makes any sense at wages down, or make us pay for is the unions' policy for the low rises by lost jobs and cuts. paid: a legally enforcible nationEveryone else in the public al minimum wage to be legislatsector: the nurses, hospital ed by a Labour government. ancillaries, water workers, and firemen have been hit too. More Jobs, Less Hours The SDP support this Tory THE Tories have used anti. policy and want to toughen it up union laws, fear and unemployby a massive system of controls ment to hold down wages. to screw down every workers LABOUR has an alternative: wage. free collective bargaining increased public spending, and Labour's Policy an end to the 'cash limits' on council spending. That will LÁBOUR is the only party which create jobs, not just the 'training is firmly committed to free schemes' on slave labour rates collective bargaining. that Tebbit wants.

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