Young Socialists begin north-east Right- to-work march

we Inflation eats into workers' living standards and real wages. But since they have fought action, won wage increases back and, through strike government propaganda tame economists have tried to blame inflation onto them by talk about cost inflation.

ice rises precede wage increases and tend to outstrip them. In any case continually rising prices assist industry to maintain profits because in its present monopoly stage increases in costs can generally be passed onto consumers with a percentage mark-up for profits. Meanwhile fixed charges, such as interest payments, become less burdensome.

It is when industry faces its competitors on the world market under conditions of intensified trade war created by the Nixon measures and the complete instability of exchange rates that the struggle to contain inflation becomes a decisive question.

inflation in one country outstrips that in others its exports will be priced out of world markets. The result will be a balance-of-payments crisis, a run on its money and forced devaluation. This problem afflicts Britain acutely and will be aggravated by entry into the Common Market. But the French, German, Italian and other governments are equally sensitive to the inflationary threat. le ruling class in each country can only deal with the crisis caused by inflation, which it is powerless to turn off, by smashing the fighting capacity of the working class. turns to the bureaucratic leadeos assist it in this task. The Ethic programme of integrating the trade unions into the state comes alive. Anti-union laws become necessary.

ily by defeating the working class can the ruling class face its competitors in the trade war. It hopes to impose a wage freeze which will mean a reduction in the living standards of the working class while enabling profits to be maintained and increased. lere is no national solution to inflation, which has now from Middlesbrough.

Unemployed youth from the high-unemployment areas of Newcastle, Sunderland and Teesside will march for seven days and pass through six main centres.

YS national committee member for the region, Dave Jones, said the campaign will involve TUC and Labour Party collaborate in treacherous series of talks Pay freeze and Ulster coalition LEADERS of the TUC and the Labour Party took big the Tories this week. Alarmed by the gathering econ militancy of the working class, they moved to prop 1 ing wages and Ulster policies.

Share prices moved up on the London stock markets yesterday on the strength of optimistic headlines about the union chiefs' talks with premier Heath.

The reason for this is clear: Thursday's talks were a gross betrayal of Britain's 10 million trade unionists.

Last week the TUC General Council backed resolution which it claimed meant no wage restraint. Yet in this week's talks with Heath and the ConfederaTIon Aritish Industries three parties had agreed on the urgency of keeping down and prices' ("The Times', September 15). This followed a unanimous vote at the TUC— ncluding the Communist part!

to talk to the Tories ani hosses. immediately these falks were firsd one or he harmal di monted. The chiets have scrapping of the Industrial Relations Act.

And as we also warned, the TUC's pact to keep the Tories • office is being larded wi nical talk about helping tl lower paid.

The depth of the General Council's treachery can be gauged by the statement of the president after Thursday's daylong meeting:

It does mean a relative worsening of the position of the higher paid.' No matter how they may try deny it, every union leader who took in Thursday's țake ne ac . he the case. class are re diman din th m cre. tales- And Teroav s Dailv Telegraph tortal condemned the hitiders jobless youth from the dole queues.

"They will be marching for the Right to Work and demanding the trade unions take action against the Tory govern'We want to involve older workers in the fight for this position which is supported by the Communist Party and the revisionist groups who hang on to their coat-tails.

Yet the union leaders know full well that major class battles are inevitable as the Tories jack up prices and attack living standards on the eve of entry into the Common Market.

Their talks with the government, therefore, are in no sense some kind of boom era compromise. They are aimed at striking blows at the working class.

As Feather and his colleagues help the Tories to hold down wages, Harold Wilson helps them over Ulster.

The day before the union leaders met Heath in the Great Parlour of Chequers, the Prime Minister's luxurious country house in Buckınghamshıre, Labour party leaders were also involved in discussions in the office of the deputy leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons. basic right. But this means ail-out campaign Tories to resign, to force Lorles lo resten.

Unemployment has hit youth hard in the north ea In Sunderland alone week the youth employn authorities announ ced they 120 vacancies fo • 2,152 steps towards coalition mic crisis and the gro p the government's sta This meeting was with leaders of the Northern Ireland Social Democratic and Labour Party. Since Heath had been unable to find a formula which would enable the SDLP to attend the 'all-party' talks on Ireland, Wilson was trying his hand.

Precisely when the working class of Ulster faces its greatest dangers, the Labour leaders operate a bipartisan policy which lays the basis for further military repression.

As the economic crisis deepens the Labour and trade union leaders rush into the arms of the Tories, willing to perpetrate evergreater betrayals on behalf of the capitalist system they love.

The enormous fighting spirit shown by builders, dockers, railwaymen, miners and all other sections of the working class cannot by itself achieve victory without a political programme to replace these 'labour lieutenants of capitalism' with a revolutionary leadership. st. last lent had uniggerCouncil special Council The YS march passing through Hartlepool, Peterlee, Durham, Chester-le-Street, Sunderland and Jarrow, nas the backing of two union bodies.

Trades Councils in Sunderland and Jarrow-Hebburn have both voted to give the march as much support as possible.

BROMWICH Trades has voted to convene a meeting to set up a The resolution read: 'We are completely opposed to the attack now being waged by the Tory government against all basic rights. The campaign must be waged to unite the whole working class in a struggle to bring down the Tories through a General Strike called by the TUC, and to replace them by a Labour government pledged to SPECIAL ATI MEETINGS CENTRAL LONDON :

Inaugural meeting of t entertainments and pre unions.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER

17,7 p.m. 'The crisis of technology and unemployment.' SHAFTESBURY HOTEL MONMOUTH STREET, WC2.

Speakers: Roy Battersk

(ACTT. In a person capacity).

A London doc LIVERPOOL SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 10.30 a.m. 'Crisis in the car ind try. Fight for the right work' STORK HOTEL QUEEN'S SQUARE Speakers: Alan Tho (deputy senior ste Morris Motors, Oxfor a personal capacity)

Mike Banda (SLL tral Committee)

SWINDON:

SUNDAY SEPTE 17, 7.30 p.m. 'Join the fight to force the Tories to resign' LOCOMOTIVE INN, FLEET STREET Speakers: Tim O'Sullivan (senior night steward Morris Motors, Oxford, in Member of the scion. Member of the Swindon building strike committee. Representative from the Thornycroft (Basingstoke) occupation. rnett Nard d. In