Who will the chancellor help with this He will, course, do nothing for the four million unemployed.
On the contrary, their continue to fall from their present level already lower than at any time since 1951.
He will do nothing for wage earners, whose take-home pay nas risen percent while the Tories own price index shows their living costs to have risen by l per cent.
He will do nothing to halt the wholesale destrucproductive resources of this country. Hatred His true BUT BUSE revealed by the scandal we week, which his friends made E24 million in a day from the SalC of EDICCIOUS public The chancellor's confirms for the whole country that this government, government of partisan class nauco, nas no legunmate claim represent orto continue in office. This budget is a budget for the rich.
We expected nothing IT HAS been the custom to address members of the House as honourable. I have no intention of continuing this tradition in respect of the Party opposite. ed, will demand initial expenditure SOYCEECHE £9 billion and will restore work to 800,000 people.
However I must now come to a number of further proposals which, 1T01 unaccountable reason, I have previously failed to mention.
Firstly, allow the scandalous situation to persist whereby those in work are forced to accept longer and longer nous wane ner comrades are denied work. Jointly with the therefore be campaigning To now on or ac does tion of all overtime create a further 880,000 jobs and the introduction 35-hour week, create million jobs. Our government will TEN CES compulsory.
EnIS should panied by any fall in the real income of working people and we will legislate to empower the unions to ensure that their members are paid, for a 35-hour week. the now receive for an average working week with overtime.
wages Michael Foot: the speech he ought to make believe them to be a corTUDL and parasitic clique who are now desperately frightened because fraudulent claim to represent the nation's interests is now exposed for the miserable deception that it We believe they will stoop to every means at their disposal to prevent their wealth being applied TOI socially necessary ends. chancellor's colleague Mr This Tebbit is preparing an un Just and violent law with which to bludgeon the unions into submission to ine emp overs demands; that is why he is endeavouring to bin the blame for the present unrest on young people and on the opposition benches, particularly my good comrade Mr Benn.
He hopes a law and ed to justify a despotic attack on ordinary people who are doing no more than defending their rights against a tyrannical regime whose true colours, add, amply attested by disgusting SUDDOR. alone amongst European governments for the brutal Salvadorear dictatorship I warn these gentlemer now that we will stand shoulder to shoulder with British working people in resisting, quite regardless any attack which seeks to use the law to deprive them of their basic rights It is now clear that the party opposite, and those they speak тог have respect neither for law nor human dignity. Our government will therefore be obliged to take specia measures to defend those order' campaign can be us- it represents, when next it takes office.
We anticipate that our policies will be the occa sion for a considerable campaign by the employers, who will use an excuse withdrawing capital, and will seek to use the courts and police against all those who resist this . 1 have i1 mind the fate of the valiant workers Laurence Scotts, which our friends would like to see repeated he has misinformed across the country.
We do not consider the chancellor's friends to be the legitimate inheritors of USOV own. These resources were produced by the sweat of the workers of this coun try. and their DECOCHIE owners have shown themselves unfit to dispose of them. We will return new control of these resources to mose wao producea Socialist Challenge them We intend to see that the productive resources of this country are defended depradaFor me chancellor s friends and brought back SUREL by those who work in them. We shall therefore legally empowe the workers of any • firm failing to meet its social obligations to the community to seize the assets of that firm.
In order to ensure that financial well physical assets are secure nationalise the banks and publish, for the scrutiny of the unions, the accounts transactions and assets o every firm in Britain In order to initiate the use of these resources shall be and down the country, of meetings, Labour Party and union members to conduct an in. ventory of the resources at our disposal and prepare national plan. Our first step will be to contact the in every public sector industry to discuss the im plementation of our proposals in that sector.
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debate on the budget no doubt fell have been different. the speech that Michael Foot could have made - if he was a socialist.
broadcasts of the House of Commons asleep like the rest of us. But it could Below we print