As Mersey Lucas workers give lead Jobless total hits 30-year peak

Unions agree to wages inquiry we I IHE New YOrK United for council strike BY ACCEPTING an inquiry into the council total bankruptey of collaboration with the Tory 2,000 march in Newcastle WAGES IS SIST THE NATICNAL WITH NINE days to go, we have now reached almost half the target. Yesterday we received £101 15s 0d which gives us a total of £620 Ils 2d.

There must be no resting back. The troops are still standing by to be used against council workers. Each dav the actions of the Tories must make us more and more determined to build the The paper must reach out to thousands more workers who are involved in struggle against the government.

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policy. Employment's careful juggling with percentages and seasonal adjustments, it has to admit that 598,167 workers were registered iobless October 12 - the October figure for 30 yeahest and that 7,93l more were wholly unemployed than on working population are now officially admitted to be withare now wholly unemployed than at the same time last Suggestions that seasonal shows a 29,784 drop from last month's workless total are based on the flimsy pillar of a 26,946 drop in the number Temporary month, largely because of disputes in the car industry which igures-down-played as these official estimates almost cer tainly are — further expose ne criminal bankruptcy of he productivity-dealing unior leaders' policy of 'pressure' on the government for a cut in workers in the North-West, where a total of 80,580 workers are now registered as NO LET-UP in the steadily rising trend o unemployment can be seen in yesterday's pro visional figures for mid-October. For all the Department of .. 2.6 per cent of the total Last October's figure was Some 31,000 more people No less than 48,000 were last Unemployment. is Tory And each successive month's Lucas car - component MINERS' VOTE RESULT THE RESULT of the miners' strike ballot will be announced in London today after the 2 pm meeting of the National Union Mineworkers' national executive committee.

If the miners have voted by the necessary two - thirds action, first national official stoppage since the 1926 General Strike.

The miners have turned down a Coal Board offer of between 37s 6d and 50s week, which falls short of the union's demand for a £20 minimum for surface workers, £22 for those underground and £30 for face workers under the National PowerLoading Agreement.

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(Central Committee member of the Socialist Labour League) How to defeat the Tories and their attacks against the working class 9.30 a.т. STOCKPILING

unemployed, have cut through this dangerous claptrap to give an important lead.

A meeting of over 300 men at the company's Fazakerly, Liverpool, Industrial Equipment plant overwhelmingly passed this resolution:

This meeting demands the right to work in a period of unemployment. We reject redundancy in any shape or form and are opposed to any sackings.

We reiterate the policy of the Merseyside Lucas area shop stewards' committee for nationalization of the Lucas combine to guarantee the right to work which is higher than the right to profit.

We call on the support of other trade unionists in the area in our refusal to allow anyone to go through the gate and finally, that we cease all overtime working forthwith.

Determined

The factory makes hydraulic pumps, motors and transmissions and the company has declared that as the market is now falling far short of expectation they intend to reduce their labour force in the next six months.

BSC to close wire works WHITEHEAD HILL wire works at Cwmbran, Monmouthshire, which forms part of the wire group of the general steels division, is to be shut down, the British Steel Corporation announced yesterday.

Most of the 96-strong labour force at the 100-yearold works will be offered alternative employment within the corporation.

General shot GUNMEN in three cars yesterday shot and seriously injured the Chilean army commander-in-chief, General Rene Schneider, as he drove