WAGE FREEZE from page 1 | IMGpapers 1980

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What is needed is a joint public sector response to the Tory attack. As Al Walker, chairperson of Liver"The Tories have declared war on the public sec.

"To fight it, we need an alliance of all public sector workers. The manual workers' claim is in but as yet no reply has been made. The water workers also have their claim What's needed is a joint fight by all these groups rather than taking on the government one by What is also needed is the support The labour leaders must be willing to swing their support -- material as well as moral -behind any action that gets underBREAK-THROUGH United action of this kind would not only break through the Tories attempts to destroy workers' living standards. It could also be a major break-through in the fight against cuts in the social services, drawing behind it Labour councils up and down the country.

By challenging the Tories' axing of schools, hospitals, old people's homes and other social services, it also has the potential of gaining the support of wide sectors of the labour movement.

The public sector workers seriously rocked the Callaghan government in 1979 when they broke through his 5% norm. There is no reason - when the stakes are that much more important - that they can't do it again.

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one-day conference of CARL Socialist Action