measures taken by the Government they are not even a decent fig-leaf. The Government estimates that £1,000 needs to be spent to create each new job. Yet the entire investment in the jobs creation scheme is only £70 million. Even on the Government's own figures, this means that only 70,000 jobs will be created to breach an official level of unemployment of 1¼ million and a real level which is nearer 2 million. space. In the next 10 years it is planned to eliminate no less than 275,000 jobs in the motor and component industry.
The recent report by Counter Information Services summarises the situation very well: The Government defends its policy of shifting resources from consumption to investment by claiming that it Will create more jobs. But the invesenients to be usco to mercase the productivity of the existing industrial base. Apart from North Sea Oil, there is no area where industrial investment is taking place to any significant degree.
*As productivity increases less labour is needed. The growth of productive capacity has not been enough to compensate for this, and the point was long ago reached where more labour is being expelled from production than is being re-employed. As a result the number of workers in manufacturing industry has fallen from 9,010,000 in 1964 to 7,758,800 in 1974. this he follows the example of the the auto manufacturers to increase by 40 percent without any significant increase in the number of capital re-investment.
drive now starting to get underway will involve a direct challenge to the traitors like Jones and Scanlon, ment's foremen in British industry.
The workers at the Triumph factory in Coventry have taken up the gauntlet. Their decision to veto the speed of the line was taken in pursuance of implementing a pro•drives in themselves.
slowing of the line speed can be used to provide extra work for the Now Jack Jones is trying to fill in the wild projections of economic growth by calling on the trade union movement to boost productivity. In US trade union leaders, who helped production in their Detroit factories workers employed or the amount of