1. A guaranteed weekly wage-five days" work or fise days' 3. No suckings or redundancles through productivity deals. 4. A national minimum wage for all workers, employed or divide the working class, "a deliberate strategy ... designed factories" (Workers Press, 24 August), the organisation of the unemployed is based on the reality that the unemployed are aleady separated from their brothers in the factories by them in struggle. It is simply not coough to make propagandistic demands that the trade unions take responsibility for unemployed as a substitute for work inside the official trade unions; on the contrary it is the only way of ensuring that the maximum possible leverage is exerted inside the official moverent, It is only through such demands as the right of The importance of organising the nemployed can firther be seen in the experiences of the '20s and 30s, In the "30s the existence of the National Unemplayed Workers Move. ment was of crucial importance in preventing the spread of fascist ideas, to which the unemployed section of the worklabour moverent, is shown by the experience of the "20s not to be an invitable resuit of separate organisation of the unemployed, Thus in 1921 members of the newly-founded National Unemployed Workers Committer Movement took action which was successful in getting overtime abolished in a number of factories. In 1922 during the AEU lock-out it it was the NUWCM which was able to prevent blacklegging by the unemployed it i instruclive to compare this with precisely because of the absence of any organisution of the For all of these reasons we therefore stress the necessity U'nions as the most effective way of achieving this. Claimants Unions play a vital role in defence of the immediate economic benefits for the anemployed (this aids the whole class, since the higher benefits are, the less able is the emplover to use seme Gime they are more amenable to revolutionary polities urgen:ly oppressive und degrading, and hecause of the lack Provided that they do not restriet themselves to representing make every affort to establish class links with the organised Road, London N.1.
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