CORE JOBLESS

Workers Press no. 875, 22 September 1972 · scan page 2

Topics: Unemployment, Trade union leaders and the TUC

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ANOTHER 8,500 workers joined the ranks of the hard-core unemployed in Britain this month, according to figures released by the Department of Employ. ment yesterday. The total number of people registered as unemployed in Britain and Northern Ireland on September Il was 921,490. Of these, 817,515 were wholly without work.

In Britain the wholly unemployed figure was up increase for this time of year is only 8,509—the usual 3,200. before the Tories take Britain into the Common Market. B This bitter news comes with just 27 working days to demonstrates that the Tories are pursuing, with ruthless determination, policies aimed at making the working class pay the price for entry. leaders to break of their teacher us talks with the gged ment and the employers, a further round of which is due in four days' time. Far away from the labour exchanges, in the oak-panelled safety of Congress House, TUC secretary Victor Feather delivered himself of this pathetic comment:

'These figures show no know from them whether are still appallingly high?

employmest erase hicky of those westine eleven register, show that 3.9 per cent of the working population of Britain is unemployed.

In Northern Ireland the percentage is 8.3 (a slight drop from last month's 8.7 figure). Worsthit British regions are the north (7 per cent), Scotland (6.8 per Feather Pathetic comman cent), Wales (5.4 per cent) and the north west (5.2 per cent).

The sharpest increases in hardcore unemployment came in the northern region, where another encouraged union clear trend and it is not possible to a recovery is getting under way. They 2,330 found themselves wholly unemployed, and Scotland.

The north-west (1,860 more wholly unemployed) was not far behind Scotland's 1,922 more. There were another 1,481 hardcore jobless the once James Airlie (leit) threatens to resign If Govan doesn't back 'work-in' at Clydebank. Downcast James Reid is on the right. prosperous south-east.

The jobless trend in Britain is obviously still upwards—the number of wholly unemployed has increased by about 4,800 a month in the three months JuneSeptember.

Twelve thousand redundancies were notified to the Employment snub to Department in August on top of 17,000 in July.

In the first eight months of the year, 135,000 redundancies were notified to the department.

These figures are the sharpest possible indictment oi the TUC and Labour leaders' failure to mobilize action to force the Tory job-killers out of office.

They must act as a spur for the building of Councils Action in every area behind the demand that this is done, and a SEE PAGE 12 Labour government committed to socialist policies elected.