I see the question of thresholds somewhat differently. First, we must safeguard what we have already gut. Second, we should try within our I do think that any factory that fights ta get the threshold would also tight over a national nage claim within its with an improved threshold it would. in some cases, anly be a question af standing still-and unless everything into account such as rents and mortI have noted with interest the number of disputes that have been fought over the question of the threshold payment.
The impression I get when talking to people of the left is that they seem to be against the acceptance of the threshold in principle, because it takes away the motivation to fight for your annual wage award, and this in turn would reduce the need to belong to a trade union.
US to Sane Sull Own lactories to get our own improved domestic threshold agreements, Third, own industry or an annual wige claim.
It needs to be speled out that even that increases costs to workers is talen be exposed. - E. JACQUES, In conclusion, I do not think in should ever be seristied, and like Ofver Twist should always be going back their friends are alweys corning beck, what with wage freezes and product Ivity swindles, Now its their social Although for my sins 1 am a mem ber af the Labour Party, and intend to remain with it, I think a lot of Party members agree with the coint o WIN TOWEENE SURE GOINGCT ISS people new neme for a wage cut and must (Leeds AUEW Shap Steward). REPLIES We agroe with comrade Jacques about the thresholds. Ever since their introfor the defence of the thresholds and their extension into a real sliding scale The argument that thresholds would undercut workers' militancy is complet aly wrong. At present, as workers find their annual wage rises being wor away in no time at all by rocketing prices they have to launch wage claims and industrial action two, three or more times every year. To think that this automatically makes them more mil itant is crazy. They are more likely to НОШІН НОШІ НЕЙ НІГИНИ If militants cannot show them a way to avoid such frustrating prospects then many will become prey to the La bour Party and trade union bureaucrats who do alaim to have another answer to inflation-the social contract", in Far from weekening trace unionism, the winning of a sliding scale would be a big step forward for the trade union movement, The unions should be cor corned with all the questions that affect the welfare of the working class They should be developing their own socialist plan to moot the capitalist crisis and organising steps to carry that plan into action regulating prices, taking ov ar firms that go bankrupt or try to declare redundancies, rehousing homeless working people in unocoupied property and many other thingsl. The winning of the sliding scale should be just the beg inning. - The Editors