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Workers Press no. 689, 15 February 1972 · scan pages 5, 6

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per cent of the pr incomes below th tary Benefits scale : level which the gor siders to be the l mum'.

The fact that workers do not : unemployed - in married women bother because the gible for unemplo - also means tha figures for unem always well below For those entit! the reasons for th to do so are not Some of them are:

STIGMA ASSOCIAT WITH BENEFITS reluctant to claim i Many possible which still carries the Relief and W tems that formed Assistance during 19th and first 48 20th centuries.

LACK OF INFORM.

Workers have

fathom out their el nut in a claim.

THE MEANS TEST An odious pry: affairs of the pc object not of im situation, but of no more than a s come is attained.

FORM FILLING A mass of form red tape are as! different allowances opulation, had e Supplemeni.e. "below the vernment conVational minithousands of register when cluding mont y are not eliyment benefit t the official ployment are the real situaled to claim, leir reluctance hard to find.

applicants are from a scheme reminders of orkhouse systhe basis of most of the years of the ATION to try and ntitlement and ing into the or with the proving their ensuring that iubsistence ins and general sociated with odes irity ides) tigaaud, an wide : or Starting tomorrow, Workers Press' will carry a six-part series by BERNARD FRANKS detailing the benefits due to the unemployed, the worker involved in trade dispute, and the pensioner. He will also discuss some of the 1,001 situations which enable the authorities to stop or reduce the amount paid. CONTINUED WORKERS' RIGHTS A NEW 6-PART SERIES encroachment.

On November 6 last year a another recession with vast unemployment and a big growth of nationalism. In such a situation the capitalists would have to develop nationalism and start pushing corporatism — strikes that are going to be the great disturbers and these characters are not going to be able to stop them.

I go along with what the SLL says, that the labour movement DAVID McJIMPSEY ASWP member London, N4 For me the most important point to emerge from the Draft ManiThere one point in the Manifesto I would like to be elaborated upon and that is the counter-revolutionary role of the Communist Party bureaucrats, for I feel there is a great deal