discussion 'next vear*) but also resolution on uncmployment which called for an end to systematic overtime.
Fic later resolution NEC'S advice. against the committing the Labour work week win Party 35-hour no loss of pay, an end to systematic and opposition to taxation of unemployment benetits. Women It also called for woman's right to work though no speakers took up this point in the debate.
Audrey Wise in moving the motion argued that it was not enough to wait TOI HING BOX government unemployment. What was needed, she said, was full the whole debate was the independent action of the bring abour such a redistri Pay The Labour statement on the economy strongly opposed policy, but there was no serious lead given on how senile of the public setor cent this winter Arthur Scargill hinted at this problem when he spoke of lhe miners com ing to the aid of those less powerful than But that was all Most of the debate was taken up with the problem of youth unemployment. dustrial weight the Tories war on local Labour Councils.
week Tory Minister Environment, Michael Heseltine unveiled plans to legally oblige local coun cils to comply with the Tories' cuts in social spendin fiot only are sovern ment subsidies to be cut to the bone, but now the op tion of putting the preferred by on the Labour left, is also be removed. Local referenda will nOW be compulsory before such a rate can be raised.
Lambeth Labour Icader Ted Knight won the Labour conference to supcalling for all-out struggic these new including 5310033 breaking the law necessary Outside Are we going to ster outside of Hesetines sw Well, comrades, that may be the casc. Is iu wrong le step Hescitine's that means that working class people sufdie as a ecutive and parliamentary spokes person on local government, Gerald Kaufmann, all asked conference to op pose the motion. But the experience dozens of local Labour fighting against Heseltine's cuts overcame the NEC's opposition.
Knight summed up the mood OT InC delegates when he charged: must say to Labour coun cillors you cannot be mere policy. We must say to Heseltine and to the Tory government that Labour labour movement against the Tories' attempted destruction of democratic local government' - that was the message of this week's Labour conference to Ted Knight argued for a fight against Heseltine's councillors are not going to balance the books at the expense of workers' jobs, social services, cducation and the rest. on Heseltine's was passed which promisreimburse any Labour charged for their refusal to implement the cuts.
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This Labour LOE ference decision comes in the wake of the London regional Labour Party executive, to call for all-out action against Tory cuts, and the adoption of a Highnung strategy ordinated by Labour Councils against Labour activists around the country should take heart trom these deci sions. In each locality the Labour Party and trade unions should now thrash out a plan of national and local action to bury the Tories' cutbacks once and for all SOCIALISM
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result Knight asked Tabour's national ex