THE TUC's long Express*, carrying 125 sponsored young people, starts a 'whistle-stop' tour of ten British cities.
on the Friday.
be a national labour demonstration in London.
The tremendous rank Peoples arch showed the Gile support TOT smouldering anger Tories and their deliberate creation of mass unemployment.
burst into Inat anger the flames of the riots this summer as the black and white youth of the inner cities, goaded beyond enawaited official campaign At the end of the week, after having picked the young Later that night there will be the first of movement durance by their no-hope life on the dole. hit back.
Official figures show that one in Britain's under- 18s are out of work.
But this figure reaches 45 per cent in some parts of the inner cities. This is approaching the disaster levels of America where among the young blacks on Chicago's South-side the rate if 57 per cent.
This is just the tip of the Recent surveys in London, CHIESICL Wolverhampton show the Liverpool and non-registration TETE 3HUH3. youth on average reached a siaggering 40-48 per cent in parts of London.
But the TUC still only wants to protest and lobby SOSTEICIL about this scandal. The official campaign logo says it all. It is a pleading hand not a defiant fist. ak but of the ses led "sealed nrez train' and be a focus for a fight-back reach out to the youth of our ghettos and champion the fighting examples of Laurence Scott.
Called in conjunction Organisation, the British Council, the National A crociation for Asian Youth, the National Union OSEROCES and Youthaid this is a first event in what is a continuWE DEMAND Almost half of young people out of jobs in some areas Wing "Jobs For Youth' campaign whose major focus will be May 1982 Every trade union and Labour Party branch or committee should sponsor and nominate a young perOUR JOBS Soin Nominations and sponsorship (E100 for the train and £20 for coaches Per perse mon be sent to Regional Coordinators by 16 October Every nomince will applicatior form tinal choic will be made later in OcThe names Regional Co-ordinatol can be obtained from TU Regional Offices.
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against youth unemployment will start in New- castle on Monday 23 November when the Jobs
25 people at each stop, workers will link up with another 2,000 spon- sored youth for a mass protest rally in London
three nightly concerts at the Rainbow by top bands and on Sunday 29 November there will
THER CRISIS OUR JOBS