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to mobilise the strength of the whole class in a fight with the Tories, the TUC is trying to mobilise the CBI.

At a special Transport Union conference on import controls, general stated: We take the viens Moss Evans stated: that the CBI ought to end its silence and represent the members properly' The key demand of the TUC in its attempts to tie up with the employers is the CUltrols This policy will do nothing solve At best would merely export it for a short time.

Recession The crisis is not just a British crisis. I hroughoul the unemploynent is increasing by leaps and bounds. In the nine EEC countries When import controls were introduced on a large scale the 1930s unemployment jumped from 12 per cent in 1929 to 23 per cent in 1932-3. Dearer Import controls would reduce the standard of liv. ing of British workers. cheaper goods are exclud ed, British workers would daces. Import controls ac have to buy dearer extra 01 1 the workers in favour of employers.

For example, a direct result of EEC controls on food is that food in Britain is almost 50 per cent dearer inar in the rest of the The call for import controls is an openly nationalistic demand, saying workers that they have more in common than other workers.

Of course, employers will support import controls where they increase inelr pronts. But they wil also want redundancies. speed-up, and attacks on fighting for policies which unions. Only make the employers pay for the crisis can the work. ing class may any progress in tas pena The well-fed gentlemen of the TUC (Len Murray's price rise last week gives him ar annual salary • O1 over £20,000) are deter mined to avoid a confrontation with the Tories.

Quangos Their policies al c tailored so as not to alarm the employers and enable civilised discussion to take place in govern Well-paid seats on quangos are more comfor Laole man caute e cias. stre que de. places omake struggle or a them fight.

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should show anger of -working people' The contrast greater. couldn't be the AGAINST Tories last Wednesday. CSEU who organised a twohour general strike against the Tory government. the anger that working people are feeling over the highest level of unemployment ever.

Open letter to the labour movement WE are sure everyone in the labour movement is looking forward to the people's march with anticipation for the start of a fightback against this We hope that this march will be used to show Surrounding the march should be calls for

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