By Har Sloan
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-07-14Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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which provides a meagre subsistence to the millions of unemployed and destitute victims of Thatcherism. He wants benefits cut substantially enough to force the jobless to take the lowest paid jobs.
Lawson believes that the Tories have not yet cashed in sufficiently on the unemployment which they have so expensively fostered.
He smugly argues that one of the causes of mass unemployment in the 1930s was the relatively high level of unemployment benefit - and that the Tories in the 1980s should not make the same mistake again.
Cutting unemployment benefit would both save money and lower the "floor" level of wages paid by the most ruthless employers, he believes.
Arrogance This view is summed up in the cynical arrogance of Sir Alfred Sherman of the Centre of Policy Studies. "You could bring five million Indians here tomorrow
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Socialist Organiser no. 140, July 14 1983 Page 2 EDITORIAL WHEN the press bays at Arthur best rule Solidarity?
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