THE PROSPECT of a million unemployed by Januarv is the dark shadow over this year's assembling i Brighton next weekend.
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thinli cannot dodge the issue of unemployment. Those who still have jobs are threatened with the loss of them, and the employers intend to use the growth of unemployment as pressure to stop wage increases and attack the hard-won legal rights of trade unions.
Unless the organized labour movement fights against unemployment, therefore, it is allowing the Tories to prepare their weapons against the whole working class - employed as well as unemployed.
Already nearly two million working-class people, in the families the unemployed, are existing on unemployment pay and supplementary benefit. The number of unfilled jobs is going down.
Do the trade union leaders accept that by Christmas four or five million should be living on the dole?
Every worker must have the right to a job!
And this must mean: every worker has the right to demand of his trade union built up in 200 years struggle and sacrifice, that they fight for this right of every worker to a job. No mandate The Tory government elected in June has no mandate whatsoever for unemployment. It is in office under false pretences.
The fight for full employment means a fight against the Tory government, to force it to resign.
The TUC represents, over ten million organized workers.
The strength of this movement, politically mobilized on this basic question, could force the resignation of the government.
Speak out
It would be supported by the millions of working-class housewives struggling to make ends meet against rising prices, rents and fares. It would be supported by millions of youth facing a future of unleon Trotstayds last words: *t amuconfident ofi ibervictory, off tines Fownthi hiternational Gorforward!!! nation and warconomic stagof millions of professional and It could middle-class people whose savings and fixed incomes are eaten away by the monopolists and by rising prices.
The TUC must speak out clearly: the right to a job for every worker!
Capitalism in any case leaves only this 'right' to the working class. It must be enforced.
Such a fight against the government and the employers will mean a big change in TUC policy.
must be tabledy resolution tabled for a campaign throughout the trade. union movement to force the resignation of the government and replace with piedged to boll emovement This can be of Policies only by socialist nationalization big monopolies without compensation and under workers' control. It means keeping openin the workers and their under the managément unions, all factories threatèned with closure.
It means the unions must enforce the rule: no sackings!