STRIKE FOR JOBS ON 26 NOV. | IMGpapers 1968

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23 OCTOBER 1975 No. 122 PRICE 10p In an act of open scabbing on the unemployed, the TUC is trying to crush the mass jobs lobby planned for 26 November. Circulars instructing Trades Councils not to participate have been sent out by the TUC General Council. This comes only weeks after the TUC foisted the wage-cutting £6 limit on the labour movement by claiming it was part of the 'fight for jobs'. This latest move clearly shows that Murray and Co. are not fighting for jobs but meekly accepting wage-cuts and longer dole queues from the Wilson Government. WEEKLY will be participating in the demo.

the Labour left, are unwilling to take: redundancy.

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Four vital steps are necessary to smash the sabotage of the TUC and turn 26 November into a real red letter day in the fight for jobs - steps that the main forces organising the demonstration, the Communist Party and sections of 1. The mobilisation must centre on the workers at the heart of the fight for jobs. The main speakers and leaders of the demonstration should be not just the 'left' union leaders and MPs, but above all representatives from the oceupations at Balfour Darwin (Sheffield) and Personna (Glasgow), and other workers occupying and striking against 2. The unemployed must be organised for the demonstration. The Manchester District Conmitte of the AUEW has work. already provided 25 seats for the unemployed out of 100 it has guaranteed on a special train from Manchester. initiative should be extended. The workers on the dole to work. have the greatest interest in the fight for jobs, but too often the unions ignore them. A huge drive at the employment exchanges can bring in the unemployed in their thousands.

Against the reformist non-solutionaof the Labour left and Communist Party, we must fight the Wilson Government for a 35 hour week, work-sharing with no loss of pay, nationalisation of all firms creating redundancies, a programme of socially useful public works, and the opening of the books to prepare a workers' plan to defend jobs

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