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Warning on Social cuts?

By David Maude

Workers Press no. 299, 11 November 1970 · scan page 5

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be a fiasco. bus engineers at Larkhall attempted to put forward an amendment calling on union leaders to extend the fight beyond today and link it with the fight against, the Tories and their Industrial Relations Bill, a district committee representative refused to accept it and instructed them simply to carry through the protest.

Yet policy is all-important in the fight against unemployAs Oxford AEF district secretary Malcolm Young told the local press this week, when asked to comment on British-Leyland's bankruptcy scare :

'As the car industry is so important to the country, serious consideration should be given to bringing it under public ownership with workers' control.

If these people running it cannot do so efficiently, they should allow others to do so' - which is no more than official policy of the CSEU, which also backs today's Glasgow stoppage:

split PARLIAMENTARY Secretary for Health and Social Security, Paul Dean, hinted in the Commons yesterday that the government might take tougher line on social security payments to strikers and their families.

He denied that the government was intending to deprive strikers' families of supplementary benefits, but added 'we do have to take the figures into account in view of the very bad strike record under the previous governEric Heffer (Lab, Walton laimed that the answer to strikes was not to take away assistance, but to improve conciliation machinery in various industries.

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