UNEI RISES

Those left with jobs are to work harder and produce explains why This is why we are in many TIGURES publi ways entering a new phase as far as labour is concerned. Even if week show that unemploy- the Tories do manage to expand ment soared during the period the economy through lower infrom mid-October to November terest rates, easier credit, and so on, this does not mean that by over 43,000 to total of nearly 550,000. employment will has grow, as it done in the past.

This is the highest Production may well incI 22 years. and unemployment remain = of seasonal fluctua- same or even rise. tions unemployment at this The latest figures show the time the year, the number growing seriousness : 0 f the witho jobs will almost cer- employment situation in tainly rise 600,000 by the North-west, North the and New Year. It is clear that land.

the economy. made no serious Maudling's little Budget' Unemployment rose has 'declin: cotton This and shipbuilding. ng' industries, not: is the area of DECLINING foreign policy. These articles will deal apparatus' carrying out and helplessness when it comes demned the In this which isolated the connection he con- those decisions.' 'bureaucratic control regions, but especially so in the unemployment stands at North (including Tyneside) • where 62,000, growing in the Midlands South-east. Again this But unemployment 11. 11 - - 1 is and the is the MOL 41. - of party from Impulea, was que to tne the individual' initiated the masses. This, he - 1..- 4 - 11- 6---14 Scotland where 93,000 are out of the figure stands at 88,000. work and the North-west where result of the increased producti- vity mentioned above, and the 'tight' position of many employers the lifetime of Stalin. The remarkable thing about 'prosperous' Midlands and It should also be noted that in cars and light engineering. this report was that it failed to reveal the wages and incomes of The other reason for the the working class, the South-east recorded a rise in number of jobless. There growth of unemployment and technicians and other now 70,000 out of work in short in these previously HE stress laid on the of the bureaucracy. Midlands where the rate of boom areas has been the move- Central which would be give n to The stagnation of labour proemployment is now very ment of in lustry to low duction of consumer ductivity indicates quite clearly the national average. areas such as Scotland, Party This stress arose out of the that there is resistance on the part Another indication of the wor- North-east and Northern Soviet Union, which considerable pressure upon the of the working class who are now jobs: sening position of labour is the fall in job vacancies. There are only about 160,000 unfilled This represents a fall of land. Fords and BMC to these areas, Vauxhall have just announced Following • the movement of crisis not discuss the over Cuba, on November rece nt 19, did and peasantry who were tire the shortages and scarcities. bureaucracy by the working The report revealed that ass of inclined to behave with indiffer- ence coming into conflict with bureaucracy and are, therefore, towards their responsibilities the La £4 million plant extension to for the implementation of the about 14,000 with little doubt it increase over the four years October. their existing factory Elles- at less in this fir eld: 34 per cent plan mere Port, Cheshire.

SEVERE This will bring the in the plan. against the 33 cent spoken The position is especially investment in this del The Despite his previous promise, the unemployment situation: un- for unskilled workers where very few unfilled jobs are to be found. A new element is apparent in to solve the problems of unem- ployment but the transfer of Not only have the moves to £26 million. lengthy report on economic development, dealing with the period covering the operation of secondary to the priority develop- ment of heavy industry and the Khrushchev admitted that the output of consumer goods was the discontent of the working class from the bureaucracy in a number has, in fact, wrested wage increases is reasonable assume that employment is rising steeply against a background of rising industry away from the Midlands and the South has meant greater the seven-year plan (1959-1965). This report, perhaps of products. of industries. At the same time as he national production. unemployment in these regions than any other since the death the question of wages In the past, once production has also, giving the monopolists more of Stalin, revealed intensifi- salaries when speaking of prostarted to expand, unemployment has fallen after a lag of a few months. But this is not happen- ing in the present situation. power to institute speed-ups, cut wages and to dismiss militants. weather mean more unemploy- Not only will the hard winter the worki cation of between the bure: the crisis relations and additional the He war measures to of consumer 'We accelerate goods.' take the need for more incentives for the collective farmers. duction, Khrushchev spoke about 'A series of measures', he said, Since unemployment began to ment but the hundreds of school- the 'had been adopted to increase the material incentives of the farmers, rise in June of last year leavers who will enter the labour and above all to raise the purchase reached all-time high duction has risen steadily and in problem. market will add the only to open ng grown 1959. price of meat and certain other September. Khru declared hchev This was frankly admitted products. As a result, collective How do we explain main targets of the by Khrushchev when he said farmers would be getting an The basic reason is that we are entering a new plan were being surpassed. that the targets for the rise additiona 1,200,000,000 roubles ductivity (i.e., production per in relation to unemployment Industrial products have in- of labour productivity in in- year.' man) has been rising throughout new methods of struggle will creased between 1959 and 1962 dustry, construction this period. to be devised. by 45 ainst agriculture, set by the a spurt in investment which is About 3 years ago there was the monopolists to It will be useless to call upon bring their target per the reached. year plan, not price of meat is definitely going In other words, although the now beginning to show its return from the point of view of the capitalists. With newer and Merseyside. has continued to factories to areas Unemployment soar in these like Scotland had increased The output of by capital per gone up in certain fields, labour productivity remains stagnant. Although overall production up, there is no indication that wages are following suit During his report Khrushchev and more up-to-date machinery areas despite such moves. as against the out- He drew attention to some spoke a number of times about in many branches of the eco- Nor will a call to the Tories lined in the general target. workers 'who willingly welcome bureaucracy and its evil effects nomy output can be expanded to expand the economy be in When the seven-year plan decisions which have been taken, in the administration of industry.

without any additions to the any way adequate. They will into ration 1959, but who display irresponsibility There is little dor but the labour force. only do this if they feel that their class will benefit.

PROBLEMS Too much expansion at But money sunk into these will mean rising costs and wages machines has got to show a for the employers, this will lead return. As an example of the to a further loss of export markets problems faced by the mono- and a familiar balance of right-wing force, polists at this time we can take ments crisis. ageing can press ahead the case of the British Motor . In any case, as we have said, solidly based on support with measures to hamstring the Corporation: * an expansion of production may for de Gaulle and for the working class organisations, place • During the last financial year lead to no expansion in jobs in policies of 'the strong state' for par ies see de Gaull and his regime on a more secure their total profits fell from over the next period. which he stands, is the most his followers the only force which footing and pave the for a way £l5 million to about £10 million The solution to the gravest evident result of French can provide them with the quiet smooth take-over by desig- his while total: turnover remained ever made to the labour elections. life for which they crave. nated successor-once clear about the same, at roughly £33 million. figures is simple the profit made on each car fell considerably during the year as the competi- The explanation these for in recent months. long-term movement consistently be met by of this country must both the short- and in THE NEWSLETTER measures outlined towards replacing the traditi public has taken a decisive parties of French capitalism. The the New It is a party based on the Union step ›nal Re- a new active type. being a mass party of the Nazi party Of course, the UNR is far from membership. It is still the movement of machine without large layer of local 'notables', a confidence it now gives to the class electorate the respect and able to command from the middle who that is to be. General, the whole political struc- Unless someone be found speeding up production can markets hotted up. tion in the European and Ameri- So the employers, sharing week, a The demands for on overtime, work- unity of employed the 40-hour leadership principle, made up of resolute in their determination to many men new to politics but keep the working class in its majority support in the country. cannot command anything like Unlike de Gaulle himself it the Fourth Republic in May 1958. ture will come to a halt as did For such an eventuality a party sacking militants, are also and un employed are not just place and endow France with the It is possible, however, that as the like the UNR could become an ding any 'excess' labour. splendid paper den kind of political institutions which social crisis sharpens it could indispensable instrument of French In the past the monopolists They are the realistic they believe can safeguard their provide the basis for a strengthen- capital-not as a parliamentary have been willing to 'carry' some the own wealth and influence. ing of the dictatorship. party but as a shock force against labour in anticipation of a with a rubber-stamp the working and its organisations. duction boom, but they do his bidding, the

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