Despite the sabotaging efforts of the General Council, massive support for the jobs lobby - called by the North West Region of the TUC — is building up. It has been endorsed by the N.E. Lanes, and London Region, of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions; Liverpool, Birmingham, Sheffield and many other Trades Councils; the Scottish Area of the National Union of Mineworkers; and hundreds of local trade union organisations (for details see back page).
Most important of all, the first steps are being taken to turn the lobby into a real day of action against unemployment. Four major London building sites covering 2,000 workers - Littlebrook power station, Isle of Grain power station, Taylor & Woodrow Victoria site, and the M3 construction job - have voted unanimously to take strike action on the day of the lobby. Workers from factories engaged in struggles and occupations against redundancies thing. IMPORT CONTROLS 3. The demands put forward against unemployment must be capable of guaranteeing the right to work. The developing campaign for import controls won't solve any. Inflation will increase, retaliatory action will provoke a further collapse of world trade, and reactionary illusions will be fostered in the British working class by pretending that our problems can be solved at the expense of foreign
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