ALL OUT ON 26 MAY The TUC leaders are already manoeuvring to accept the Budget terms. But the decisions of the ACTT cinetechnicians and actors' Equity to reject the 3 per cent norm is the first blow to be struck in the battle tô defeat the Budget proposals proposals which will mean a further drop in living standards on top of the 5 per cent A smal start to a dia loo. several nunared supporters of the Campaign to Repeal the Immigration Act marched through London last Sunday to call for the repeal of the 1971 Act and all racist legislation. On the very same day, Enoch Powell was making yet another viciously racist speech on mugging-which he termed a 'racial crime, resulting from an 'alien implant of blacks within our society.
The fact that Powell's audience was a Police Federation drop caused by the £6 limit.
Despite earlier statements that 3 per cent would not do, union leaders. like Jack Jones seem gratified at the apparent support indicated for Healey's proposals in weekend opinion polls. Meanwhile Hugh Scanlon continues to act as the Government's cop in British Leyland. This week saw the ex-left leader of the AUEW 'carpeting' his members at Drews Lane and Longbridge for striking against the f6 limit.
need the carpeting. It is they who have presided over the mass unemployment of their memberships, not the toolroom workers in Birmingham.
It was Scanlon who 'comseminar, togetner witn the predictable crowing от ine press next day, highlights the need to extend and step up the fight against racism. The whole weight of the labour movement must be thrown into a campaign not only to end police harassment of the black community and to respond to attacks by open racists like Powell, but also to eradicate all traces of racism from within the working class movement itself. It is Scanlon and Jones who present.
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