FOR A 35 HOUR WEEK

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The 35-hour week extends the principle of work-sharing with no loss of pay to the whole working class - employed and unemployed. A 35-hour week in the mechanical engineering industry alone would create another 200,000 1005. Throughout society it would create another five million. Unions committed in policy to a 35-hour week, such as the Engineers and the National Union of Public Employees, must be forced to launch a common fight for this demand — a demand which could wipe out unemployment at a stroke.

The unemployed are the victims of the crisis: they shouldn't be forced to pay for it. The workers on the dole have the greatest interest in the fight for jobs, but too often they are ignored by the unions. The unions must be forced to campaign for full pay for the unemployed and the unemployed should be given full trade union WITNTO USEFUL PUBLIC WORKS The Wilson Government is one of the biggest creators of redundancies through its slashing attacks on the social services. We say: force the opening of the books by trade unionists employed throughout the public sector. Let the workers see the extent of the euts. Explain to working people what the effects of these cuts will mean on standards of treatment and service.

Develop a campaign throughout the working class to throw back the cuts, improve the services and defend jobs through the drawing up by trade union committees in every area of a programme of socially useful public works to improve housing, health and the education services. Defend social spending against inflation by automatic increases in expenditure to keep pace with inflation. Nationalise the whole of the construction industry to carry out these proposals.

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4 'Observer'/Cuts Red Weekly 27 November 1975 to any

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• FULL PAY FOR THE UNEM- UPLOYED

JA WORKERS PLAN FOR PRO- DUCTION WHICH DEFENDS JOBS