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Black workers unemployment

Red Weekly No. 144, 1 April 1976 · p. 9 of the scan · 357 words

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more active role in building the conference its candidate would obviously nave got more votes. Moreover, if the CP affiliates to the Campaign as it clearly should - this would give it an automatic delegate to the NC.

refusing to allow it to be represented on the leadership of the Campaign. All sig nificant orranisations which state their willingness to support the Campaign's activities should be represented as the most effective way of putting this stated support to the test.

or workers cemocracy, ano witn Ene need to build the broadest and most effective campaign in solidarity with the Portuguese working class.

this error in the future. - PAT JORDAN It is to be hoped that a way will be found to correct The centre-spread on unemployment (Red Weekly, 18 March) was really excellent, but there was one serious omission. You correctly included the right to work of women workers, but made no mention of the importance of the demand for the right to work of black workers, who are equally hard hit by discrimination in employment Unemployment among male black workers is rising more than twice as fast as amone while workers. and tor Diack women workers ne situation is even worse, Ine increase among black wo men workers has been nearly three times as large as among the total of unemploved women workers. Figures from Department of Employment Report, Unemployment Among Workers From Racial Minority Groups, covering the May 1975] The defence of black workers' right to work means a vigorous rejection of all the racist 'solutions' to unemployment or tne national rront - solutIon: that also find expression within the unions themselves. It means demanding the repeal of the 1971 Immigration Act and all racist legislation For thousands of black and other immigrant workers, trapped in shit jobs or no jobs at all by poor English, it means the right to free English tuition in work-time. And for all those black workers, especially women, in non-union sweatshops (one in Walsall was paying 25p an hour for a 55-hour week IT means ne basic ronto race union organisation and a minimum wage.RICHARD HATCHER

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