6 NOVEMBER 1975 HILLING SIT IN TWO MILLION UNEMPLOYED BY AUTUMN 1977. This shock figure was revealed in secret Treasury reports exposed last week.
Employment Secretary Michael Foot's claim that 'the main objective of Government policy is to get unemployment down as soon as possible by every intelligent means available' has been exposed as a cynical lie.
Against the lies of Foot, more and more workers are stepping up the fight for the right to work. Workers in occupation for eight No. 124 Particularly important is the news from the nearly three week old occupation against redundancies at the Personna razor blade factory in The 320 workers are demanding no redundancies, voluntary or otherwise, and no reduction in hours unless full pay and manning are maintained. By raising the demand for work-sharing with no loss of pay, the Personna workers are showing the way to the rest of the working class in the fight against redundancies.
It is the workers from Personna, Balfour The Eastern region of the building workers' union UCATT, Ford's Langley shop stewards, the Bristol district committee of the Confed. eration of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, and a Coventry meeting of shop stewards called by the district CSEU have all added their support to the lobby.
The 1,500-strong Islington NALGO branch have joined a number of London building sites in voting for strike action on that day.
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