1.1 ARE GREATER lobby of Parliament against unemployment.
At a local level the fight for jobs tives of 2,000 Plessey telecommunica- the incomes policy BUILD-UP row site, Queen Anne's Gate, Victorworking class.
In Manchester the Trades Coun against unemployment.
The Manchester enginW WE WANT- BACKING N01 Workers occupying the Norton Villiers Triumph factory in Wolverhampton picket last week's Labour Party Conference referendum and the demoting of Tony Benn, allowing him to involve almost the entire trade union bureaucracy in the implementation of COMPLICITY But unemployment is the issue that can blow apart this rotten complicity in implementing the Government's attacks on the working class. Even the trade union bureaucracy understood this when it endorsed the £6 limit at the TUC but made repeated calls for Government action against unemployment.
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What the bureaucracy tears is ployment could well spill over into a fight against incomes policy. And BALFOUR DARWIN Last week we reported the occupation against redundancies by workers at the Sheffield steel and engineering firm of Balfour Darwin. These militants are putting up me must real ugat agalist a ware of redundancies sweeping the Sheffield officially support the occupation, have circulated shop stewards committees in the area asking for financial support. But there has been no attempt to involve other workers in active support for the occupation. Mass leafleting and pickets to build support, and speaking tours orrocar lactones. comu not om take the struggle forward but help to launch a campaign throughout Sheffield The Trades Council has already Dany 'NTA *EL JA the pathetic measures to 'deal' with unemployment recently announced by Healey will do nothing to alleviate these fears.
Local conferences against unem ployment and Right to Work Com mittees must now be built in every area and linked to a major national campaign to build support for the 26 November lobby. We don't want any more polite lobbies of Parliament, which failed to do anything to gain the release of the Shrewsbury pickets, but a massive demonstration on the streets against the policies and leadership of the Labour Government. All out on 26 Novempassed a statement of intent on meas ures to fight unemployment, but the executive has done virtually nothing to support the sit-in. This means that militants must pass motions in their union branches and shop stewards' committees demanding that the AUEW District Com mittee and Trades Council set up a com mittee of delegates from factories to organise support for the Darwin workers and build a campaign against unemploy ment in the local labour movement.
The militants at Balfour Darwin are showing how to fight redundancies when they occur. However, with unemploy ment continually rising, a co-ordinated policy to tackle unemployment is needed. Local conferences of the labour movement in every area can work out just what measures and actions are neces
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The tirst opportunity for the workers' movement to strike a centralised blow for the right to work will come on 26 November. On that day the North West Council of the TUC has called for a mass
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