Why import controls won't save jobs

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MANY trade unionists, those who look to Tony Benn, think that import controls would workers from job loss. CONNOLLY, crafts Rotherham British Steel Corporation (BSC), disagrees.

Why do you oppose import controls? Those who suggest that import controls are any answer to the problems facec by steelworkers are misleading the working class. It shifts attention away from the real enemy, to our brothers and sisters overseas. It takes the heat off the steel management and their Tory backers.

What takes our ups and downs of the capitalist economy over which workers have no control. In 1973, projected capacity for BSC was 36m tonnes per year. Today the plan is for 15m tonnes. Yet imports have hardly risen in that period! stand at about 7m tonnes. The massive loss of tonnage is a result of the recession, and not the use of imported steel.

We hardly got out of one recession, and now we are into another. As a result of the last one, shipbuilding was halved; car production was down by over a third; and construction was cut by a half. needing steel are taking a nose-dive.

This is where the problem is. still be declaring redundancies if not another ounce of steel was imported.

Even if the tonnage level was maintained in the British steel industry, tional industry used only British steel, this wouldn't guarantee jobs.

The bosses are concerned about squeezing more profits from the work of each individual. We can be certain that tonnage increases would go hand in hand with changes in manning socialied particularly protect BERNARD convenor at jobs is not imports, but the They These and other industries BSC. would and if the entire naSports so much.

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