SUPPORT THE STEEL STRIKE resulticly ment handed grants of £3 billion a year to industrialists, annual investment in new plant and machinery in manufacturing never rosc/abore £4 reason is Simply that British-owned capital earns twice as much from profits extracted overseas The financiers would consider it even safer to invest abroad with the inflation contributed by proposal hitticast Import controls are an inevitable plan, aimed at cecung most or ine growin in de Although he has adopted a variant put forward by Cambridge economists — of holding the growth in manufactures to about halt ot what it would otherwise reach sley - this would still force the purchase of relatively more expensive domestic. goods and have the effect of exportEven if Meacher's version of import controis did not provoke moves to block British exports, the recession in the West ensures that there could be no expansion of these exports.
Meacher begins his article: 'What duced by Barnsley Trades Council. is ahead of most parts of Britain.
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economic advance, as decided at last year's Congress "The call for strike action, suppert we tall ger on yous and services.
Trades Council. In the opinion of its secretary, In Barnsley, mich s redwirement threatened with the withdrawal of the Labour whip.
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going all-out for 18 February.' 'SOCIALIST republic of South Yorkshire' reads the best-selling badge proWhile the establishment of the republic may be a little way off, the fight in the area against the cuts in social spending.
A one day all-out strike is planned for 18 February, called by the South Yorkshire Association of Trades Councils, which is now distributing 100,000.
The proposal for the action is endorsed by Sheffield District AUEW, Yorkshire NUM, the Manchester region of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, and other trade union bodies in the North-west.
George Caborn, secretary of the Engineering Union's Sheffield district, explains that the day of action is part of the TUC's campaign for social and Caborn says, 'could obviously only be a recommendation. We are now going back to factory and public meetings to see what A major role in the campaign in South Yorkshire has been played by BarnFebruary action is part of building up of the fight against the Tories.
that fight is also having to deal with the right wing in the Labour Party, which has drawn up proposals for cuts in line with the governBarnsley councillor Alan Schofield, who has attacked this move, has been Mike Stokes expressed his political perspective as the fight for a Labour 'If it's capitalism with a conscience that you want,' he adds, 'it may as well be a Liberal government. That's why we're union Tories Candierigs, Place, Mike Stokes, the 18 sell National nursery Socialist Challenge 24 January 1980 Pages