The following statement was re leased on October 18 by Andrew Pulley, Socialist Workers candidate for president, as he concluded a tour of Detroit.
Detroit today is the epitome of the inhumanity and irrationality of the capitalist system. Many auto work-i ers still on the line are working 58 hours or more a week, some of them doing jobs that used to be done by a combination of two or even three workers. Yet hundreds of thousands of those who used to work beside them are on the streets looking for work and standing in unemployment lines.
Matilde Zimmermann (the SWP vice-presidential candidate and I have been campaigning with simple and straightforward proposals to put an end to this madness.
JOBS Like shortening the work-week with no cut in pay to create more jobs. Everyone now working would put in thirty hours weekly instead of forty or more.
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jobs for the unemployed.
from coast to coast.
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Like organising a massive programme of building new schools, housing, child-care centres, hospitals and recreation facilities. We'd put millions to work on this project Like opening the account books of the big corporations to public investigation. Nationalisation of and throw workers on the streets.
And like eliminating the massive war budget and using that $175 billion for human needs instead of private profits.
Carter, Reagan and Anderson have been stumping the country with a united proposal: that working people sacrifice to solve capitalism's economic and political problems. The parties of big business that they represent are united in their assault on the working class and the rights of the American people.
The American rulers' preparations for wars against the peoples of other countries are the other side of the same battle they're carrying out against American workers. They would send Detroit auto workers to fight and kill Iranian auto work• ers, oil workers and farmers in a war to defend the profits of the US oil corporations.
More and more American workers are beginning to realise that the fight for peace and security in the world, for a decent standard of living, and for social justice requires not only their support, but their active participation.
December 80 Tim Robinson (NALGO)