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BRITAIN'S threatened of their jobs.

within three weeks.

EDITORIAL By an industrial correspondent From Monday next, British-Leyland intends to STEP DOWN Maxi line working by 20 CUT IT BACK further half-day SLASH -scale wards ration BY Monday, with the launching of another two cosmonauts, in the Soviet spacecraft 'Soyuz 8', there were three manned Russian vehicles orbiting the earth.

Soyuz 6 and 7 with crews of two and three respectively went into orbit on Saturday and Sunday.

The purpose of these launchings may be to establish the nucleus of an orbiting space laboratory or at least to try BEING active round the political movement when coming out of the forces in 1959 I realize the great struggle that has been involved in launching the daily paper.

It will prove a great help to trade unionists to have daily news of the national and international class struggle.

D. Coventry, AEF shop steward Skelmersdale.

6 AS far as I'm concerned, I think the paper is very good because it shows how the working class is being attacked on all sides by the employers, with the help of the trade union bureaucracy.

I hope the paper continues to grow amongst the working class, and I give it my full support. y James Abbott, Croydon building worker, AUBTW member. • CONGRATULATIONS on a really tremendous achievement-the Workers' Press. Once again the Socialist Labour League, the All Trades Unions Alliance and Young Socialists have proved that principled fight using all the resources of the working class, plus a lot of hard slogging, can build what the pessimists in the labour movement believed impossible.

I would like to pay particular tribute to the Young Socialists who have done so much in building the first Trotskyist daily newspaper.

In these days, when the capitalist system internationally in crisis, where it is necessary for the ruling class to step up its exploitation of the working class in order to maintain their position, the daily becomes an absolute must as a spearhead for the working class. wish the paper all the best. • John Howe, deputy AEF convenor, CAV Fazakerly, Liverpool. (in a personal capacity).

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE MEETINGS SWINDON Speaker: Frank Willis Hung Socialists candidal in the parliamentary' by-election Friday, October 17 Swindon Town Hall Thursday, October 23 Pinehurst Common On ORDER 1