miners-engineers alliance is developing in some parts of the country, while other militants are uniting their claims within the factories-in Shardiows in Sheffield, for example, the TASS members have put forward the same basic: claim as the engineers and are calling for TASS nationally to do the same, In some areas, moves for local meetings and conferences to discuss how to carry forward the struggle against Phase 3 are also being made.
*For local conferences and action committees in every area to prepare the struggle against *Unite the struggles-unite the claims; for a miners-engineers alliance; for a public sector alliance, for the uniting of every wage claim and struggle at local and national level. *For a geneçal strike.
capitalist crisis onto the shoulders of the working class. The price which the capitalists have to pay for this is a series of restrictions that freeze their profits at the level they have already reached, provided that is above a certain minimum, "Counter-inflation" acts as an insurance policy for the capitalist class. TIGHTENING UP Phase 3 lightens up on a number of the restrictions to which the capitalists are subjected as the price of this insurance. On the prices side, medium sized fimms which previously had only to file periodic returns with the Goverment giving details of their income and expenditure atust now advise the Prices Commission whenever they put up their prices (although they do aot have to wait tor officia permission, as do the largest firms). On the profits side, a number of the technical ground rules huve been tightened up (those allowing big capitalise companies to teat their sub-anits as separate firms for the purpose of calculating profits, and those concerned with how to treat years in which a loss was made in calculating the average refetence level at which profits are frozen), JUICY CONCESSIONS But all this is really a bargain price to pay for the juicy concessions which Phase 3 offen to