WORK says In decreased.
tain: ment conveniently leaves out of its estimates people in Manpower Services Commission temporary schemes; those seeking part-time but not claiming benefit; disabled people and temporarily stopped workers, For women active in work the figure had slipped to 61 per cent in 1981 but if the number of women active in the labour market has gone on rising by one percent a year as it did in the seventies LD this should account another 500,000 women.
1979 the government's General Household Survey found 120,000 men and 240,000 women unemployed but not registered, so that wiped 360,000 off the official unemployment figures. And that figure has been steadily rising as job opportunities have steadily This is the real face of Tory Brimillion This is the reserve army that the Tories hope to use against those in work. This is the threat that it wants to use against the say that redundancies solidarity side parliament.
head of public for week and these Tory wide, Tory plans queues.
hasten the government.
mere verbal protests are not enough. They have to insist that every struggle against backed by action inside and outThey have to in sist that Labour puts itself at the campaign resist unemployment and that it links that campaign to a commitment that when returned to office it will launch an immediate programme works and a 35-hour demonstrations, strikes occupations it must resist attacks which are designed to smash the organised power of the working class.
active and vigorous campaign could show people that the can be defeated. could also show that there is a socialist alternative to the dole This type of campaign could lead towards a Labour victory at the General Election and certainly downfall of this