- persuading perhaps a few thoushould remember NIS portemoom bosses' organisation now wants "a legal status for trade unions and defining their rights, including the right to strike in certain circumstances". I hat goes even further than the former lory government s moustaa ke anoas AcIs. pushing their luck. It's up to the labour movement to Kank & Fre Code of Practice tuo setti nit ing by. han tual wiping out of the motor cycle industry, large sectors of the electronics industry, and so one. . posses are Insufficient private investment in technology is an important cause of these problems. ment's argument that industry will have to seek its own salvation is just not working.
publicly owned money for investment, not to balance the books against the flood of imports from Europe. Our membership of the EEC has nothing to offer us; it is adverse to our interests as a manufacturing nation. socialist about the Treaty Rome alternative strategy requires control of the and the barin ci hoi ne brought into public ownership. They handle the money of the people of this country quite independently of the interests of the people.
Those are obviously national pols jorl government. Other examples are the virThis govern- dustrial front, struggles. the Tories oil should be But and provide We have There is nothing for that?
Yes. economic working the financial institutions, was but act tied-up week Wing future Labour What would you week. posed to beating old ladies. The question is what do you do about We've got to get it across in the movement that it's nor just a temporary set-back that we face, but the permanent undermining of whole communities.
It has to be fought on the inand the Labour Party has to respond to those . We need to get rid of • a.s soon as possible. shall need a fighting Labour government that puts the interests of working people first.
seen previous Labour governments.
One of the key demands is for a 35-hour week. Are you fighting We also need a shorter holidays. The new technology, as well as ine recession, wilhe jobs. In my view the 30-hour week is more like what we need.
Ons Ke oy the engineering unions to ratify agreement until 1984 with no reduction in the working except for one hour in 1900-ol. i nere snouia oe grow.
pressure for re-opening discussions on a shorter working What do you think we should doing to oppose the Employm Act?
All our trade union rights w Woll by workers who prepared to struggle for th‹ rights, both the pioneers and recent years. We've always h fight. repressive laws police harassment.
I could relate from my o experience the struggle we had the Roberts Arundel dispute Stockport. The Employment A C DoUI isolating workers struggle and preventing solida ty. We need national union : tion against it. The first time worker goes to jail, the Tl should be talking about a gene „strike