£350m extra for the bosses + £100m for the police Smarting the loss his trousols Chancellor Geoffrey Howe decided to steal the shirt off your by Encouraaec the TUC's sell-out of the The offering the marmed by Alarmed the industrial catastrophe tha his policies have caused he is doling out issum to the employers in National Insurance surcharge Inspired by the spirit of human i kindness that cost us f622m to set up an arm ed fortress in the Soutr Atlantic, he is claiming back a pound a week from defenceless pensioners.
And just in case youth start to gel uppity, spending £100m on toughening up cops.
But don't imagine the hand.
produce anly . On the government's forecast This Tory ta: 11 the and all they would cirive 1: 50 : o fier vandals trom there are still jobs tr. ieCBI plans your future in Tory Britain TAKING on the Tories is a tough business; ask the steel workers, workers and even the miners about that.
So no expected workers' claim for 12 per cent was going to be an easy ride. But the health workers did have something tions didn't. beginning, stomg and wely! Right from the organised secuons workers pledged their supknew that for the overwhelming majority of people employed in the NHS 'AUSTERITY IS TODAY', said industry Confederation of British industry. pay settlements sidered'.
They haven't been Eastbourne counference, complained that top management salaries rose last year by 'only 27 percent'.
They had a lot more than that to worry about, The conference LU Cu. split over a clearly antiAT łI З A OZ ed from the platform figures as senior as British Leyland's wciae H.O -wardes, and calling for a snaro drop il lne exclalge rate.
Even though this motion was rejected because delegates 'did not want to attack Mrs Thatcher before an election', it did adopt a further motion calling for would you believe it? massive movellll spending on industry to half unemployment. ill-served by TUC the car workers, the rail that the health going for them that the other secwages were lousy. They thought that people who ala a userui ana vilal Joo like looking after the sick and the infirm should get a living wage They also knew that low wages and a finance PHILANTROPY IN BRITAIN chief Sir Terence Beckett, closing last week's conference of the 'and zero should be seriously convery seriously considered by the well-heeled delegates to the who have recently three years of Thatcher's mayhem, applauded by them and explained to us as 'the only alternative' to government intervention, they government intervention! now plead for Britain'S economic crists is qualtatively worse thirties. Guardian reports that the crisis is 'the worst decline in manufacturing county ever ' Industrial output has fallen by even more than in the thirties. now openly admitted that unemployment stands at a real figure nearer four million. starved NHS could only lead to increased pain and suffering for all working people. Furthermore they knew that health workers could hardly turn off the life support machines, or desert the casualty departments, and go down to the picket lines.
For all these reasons dockers, miners, print workers, steel workers and Olicls WCIC orcoace down cain in support 22 claim.
September over two 13% 1980 1981 tain's rivals.
This is what is causing the squeaks and agonised yelps the CBI's hounds. They OOK for every excuse for the crisis except their own rotten systeili.
NOW thev focus pay. The result of the miner's ballot was greeted million other workers took strike action over the 12 per cent.
Despite this massive support the TUC health committee still managed to lose out, unless a derisory extra one per cent on next year's pay award - OI some workers after tax this wiedeS iaiV0 a week! is considered victory.
The Murrays and the Spanswicks, along LuCI CHOW bureaucrats, have given us an object 13% UK 1982 would this any new plant.
when did DURCS short-term lesson in how not to lead a strike. talling right from the start to call an all-out stoppage with accident and emergency cover only they made SuTe : that the dispute would be long and Grawe Out They did this because they hoped that public sympathy and opinion would sway the Tories Such a hope shows that the TUC had no stomach for a fight and had a faith in Mrs Thatcher's intentions Shared by few other people in the labour novellcil Above all else what the wanted was be consulted. They wanted to play inel role as medlalors bed capitalism kind chasy and capitalism saw the days of action, and the solidarity strikes simply as means of bringing Mrs and her cabine TRaLCHcI 'around the table'.
So instead of organising joint action of health HOW EUROPEAN ECONOMIES COMPARE 13% г 1982 1980 tional, trade in dollars and re-invest mainly overseas.
The so-called "service industries' break down into two categories, both of which benefit from a hig! pound. First, the big food chains depend cheap imports, cess in Britain and sell n which thev OTLEU "his is more proworkers and the big battalions of labour, to bring the government to knees and force it to par up, these timid and cowardly leaders, curlice the movement on and off like tap that hoping desperately the government would just talk to them.
This half-hearted and dilatory approach played JOLO the ot Tories and guaranteed that Secus ol ucall WolKel: and their allies in the other sections would get fed up So the that could have turned the tide finished in failure.
But more is at stake than a failed pay claim The next step for the Tories is to open uo thelr offensive against the NHS itself. They plan to slash the service to the bone and destroy the notion tha unere should b health service based on health MCCO committee by its handling Registered unemployed as a percentage of total labour force 13% 3% 1981 1982 1980 teenth century handweaventerprise, trying to make his workers toil hard enough to compete with the prosperous steamdriven manufactury down the valley. As they are driven to ruin, they in turn try ana arive up tne ex ploitation rate of their WOKe of this dispute has opened the wav tor that The militants in the NHS have to begir now the slow and painful process of constructing a new leadership. In every hospital and area they must build and strengthen the joint shop stewards committees.
In the unions they must organise left fractions and broad left caucuses. Taking heart from what happened to Weighell the rank file, barucularl! , must organise to despatch the leaders like Spanswick, to some quiet outback where they cando more harm to labour's cause.
If these steps are taken, a movement with new class struggle ender. built, which will make sure 1100 allowed to destroy the simple task.
NHS is to survive it is a vitally necessary one. Italy 1881 HoY.
imagination vOll can take it in picture the world the CBI is preparing for you: five million on the dole, welfare slale starvation wages.
This is the Tory Britain the polls for in
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