THE EARLY labour movement struggled for the right to be paid for a guaranteed forty hour working week regardless of the amount of work available. It was only in the '70s that dockers won right.
They tell us that technology means a shorter work week and increased leisure time. There's masses of leisure time alright due to unemployment!
Meanwhile, those enough to be in work are forced to speed up the job, increase productivity and work even The wide crisis means that the capitalists
BRITAIN needs
cient movement of freight. this Such sysicall advanced dreds of private road companies profits. of important. lucky off the freight trattic that longer private road haulage sector.
satisfied with this, economic denationalise, privatise the rail system.
railways.
More than this it needs an integrated transport system, planned centrally and working in the interests of passengers and the effirational transport cannot exist where hunand rail are cutting each other's throats in competition for That's why nationalisation of the transport system is so But Thatcher has already sold system.
once went by rail to her friends in the she intends to hive off and Ray Buckton Investment in public transport is vital to the economy. It doesn't only mean efficiency, safety and jobs for the workers in the industry, it means keeping the rest of British industry alive. It means jobs, in all the related manufacturing sectors, such as catering and textiles.
It is money well spent. The cost of electrification would be less than the cost of replacing HMS Sheffield. The Tories spent over £650m * their outing in the South Atlar: i deir budget for '81-'82 calls fur over £12,000m in defence as well as further billions on a de luxe nuclear weapons The ASLEF strike cost an estimated f6m a day. But the total savings that BR will make from flexible rostering over five years will come to just over f9m. We say jobs and services, not bombs.
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