After all, it's not just water you're saving.
It's jobs. I ENis is true, he. must ita verse dappen petry nigy saving water they can save jobs LEN MURRAY - Tries to persuade people that by crucial demand is therefore the cancellation of the debt and interest repayments and the nationalisation of the banks and TO The massive programme of needed public works.
Of course, like many "nationalised" industries. the holding-down of prices • below the production used to The bie consumers the large firms, by providing cheap water to help boost their profits. For example, in 1974>5 non-capital spending £90.6 million and its receipts were £88.4 In conclusion, i doubt if comrade SilbThere's an old. old story about how the stop workers from reading books in case Well, they get ideas birminenam DISITIC Confederation of gineering Unions last week found out that ITs True When a member Supervisory AUEW was elected shop steward at GAF, a soil. company WhiCh maKes systems to factory offices, a private detective agency was called in to investigate his political may higher bAckGround -ine crounds Tor picion was the shop steward's Irish oriDrOCUCLIVILY GEES The private detective agency reported the shop steward was called in by GAr management that his employment had been terminated delegates to the Committee of shipbullding and • of the Technical anc Staff (TASS) section of the students background equipment tol GAF's sus employers are activist • and sacked. He was told Carlos? Had he in fact been toting a A-bomb around the factory in a plasti No, 'fraid not The sacked steward wa taking an Adult Education course at night and Politice Science! GAF management had obviousl what they say about sociolog • let alone one with an iris Birmingham District CSEU will be not fying all affiliated engineering unions the case. it's a salutary lesson on now prepared to go to and on the incustria triounas LINDA SIMO (delegate to Birmingham CSEU).
RED WEEKLY A Special Review "SHOULD | HAVE HUNG UP?', asked Bob Cryer MP in last week's Tribune. He is the latest left to join the ranks of the Government. Red Weekly's reply is a loud 'YES'. Not merely are we against further recruits from the left adding their support to the anti-working class policies of the Callaghan Government; those who remain, such as Tony Benn, should resign forthwith.
We have no confidence that such a course will be followed by the likes of Benn, Booth and Co. All of them show a sudden enthusiasm for the routine tasks of their office rather than face up to questions of principle such as voting against the cuts.
Arguments that the right wing in the Cabinet would be glad to see the back of them are a joke. Callaghan and Healey are pleased to have the left tag along - on their terms.
Contract But Cryer doesn't want to use such sophisticated left covers. He maintains that the Labour Government has gone a long way to fulfilling its manifesto commitment the only cloud on the horizon is the high level of unemployment. He might have added the cuts and the fall in the standard of living (although he didn't). But he is correct.
At the core of the last Labour election Manifesto was development social contract. It is now in full bloom. All those who chattered that the social contract meant a new bargain between the Government and the trade unions have been proved right - a bargain struck at the expense of the working class, with 1.5 million unemployed, £1,000 million cuts and a 6 per cent drop in living standards as the price.
That is why those who try to nail the Government on its non-implementation of the Manifesto will lose hands down. It is not possible to fight from a platform with a rotten core.
Diversion Once again the judicious use of import controls' will be wheeled out into the debate at the Labour Party conference as a diverlefts. It is not enough to demand that the