buttalions of the working class the miners, engineers, mailwaymen andso on are still undeleated and the relation of forces has not changed in favour of the employing class. Smashing a hole right through Phase 3 is the best way to defeat the employers and the guvarhment and open the way to winning all the demands of the working class. This means first of all a imited national strike by miners engineers and салнутел дия нас римег елділеел, стрийтостен and other groups of workers drawn in as well Already an agreement has been reached between ASLEP and the NUM that the miners will not allow coal to be shified from rail to road transport. This is a move in the right direction but it is still far too SIle. ASLEF and the miners must make an open public initiative for a uniting of all clims against Phase 3, or any new phase of the incomes policy. Steps must be taken at the local level as well, When Ernie Roberts of the A LEW spoke at the South Wales miners rally a smallstep was taken towards miners-engineers unity. Miners have also been invited (for example at Sheffieldi to speak at engineering shop stewards meetings. All These steps must be stepped up mormously and at all meetings held to discuss individual wage claims ropresentatives of other workers with claims in must be invited to speak so that plans for united action can be drawn 2. Work or Full Lay Off Pay. No Sackings. The present crisis, like all others, in a product of the capucallst system, None of the burdens of this crisis should be accepled by the working class, All existing ay olf pay and guaranteed wage agreements must be enforced, and such prosection extended to all other suctions of the warking cinss. Claims for Tull lay off pay must be put in by eway section ul the working class nad these must be backed up by strike action if rejected. Sackings and unemployment should not be tolerated. The world economy in recosion would bring aboug big moves towards increased unemployment next year. Barber's budget will now incroase this trend.
Any refusal by an employer to meet the demand for five days pay, any attemptat a lock out, and any move lowards sackings as firms try to rationalise and cut costs must he met with occupation-strikes. These occupied factories must he used as a base from which to organise for the counter-offensive of the whole working class against the boses and the Government, drawing ever wider layers into struggle for a general strike, 3. Put Power and Other Vital Industries Unde Workers Control A whole number of workers control measures are relevant in the present situatio. Workers in publie and private transport should use these facilcies to wransport ying pickets, and prevent the bosses from sabotaging the movement of supplies of foodstutts and other essential materials. Power workers should exercise workers control in the power stations in order to ensure that occupied facturies or other indusstries and installations seized by the workers are not deprived of clectricity Toe propagaida offensive of the ruling class must be broken. On 13 Novembor, Heath had all the Flet Street editors attend a special briefing ar TO Downing Street to plan the campaign of lies saist the worsing class metement. The print worker and Jourcalists must break this offensive by refusing to produce and print such lies. Workers on the rewing Five 4. Open the Books. socialist planned economy Working Ches OMELESS.
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Standard showed the way in the last power workers dispute by ruling to print material attacking the power workers, Printing plants car be taken over and used to produce matrial for the working class -as was done by Briants at the time of the Freeing of the The facts about the current ruling clas nanceuvre must be made knowo to everyone so that the government's lies can be exposed. Some of the facts are already coming to light. But all the records, plans and statistics must bo opened up for inspection. The TUC must demand the complete opening of all the books. But workers must not wait for this. In hundreds of firms and government departments the vital records poss through the hands of workors every day. Groups of workers must organise the publishing of every single fact on the real state of the ceonomy. On clus basis the trade unions and other working class organisations must draw up plans for the working of the oponenty add the allocation of materials ander workers control. This is the vital step towards the only real coonomic solution the creation of a Strugge 5. End the Emergency Power Law-Defend the The government still has at its disposal the Emergency Powers law, put into operation a month ago, This gives it virtually unlimited power to commandeer supplies and use the police and army against the anions. The army has already been mad in the Glasgow firemen's dispute. An immediate demand must be made for the ending of these lows and for the defence af picketsand the organisation of picketing pools must be trenched in city area There must be a direct appeal from all working class organisations shove all from the TUC and the Labour Party to the army rank-and-file, calling on them to refuse to strike break and attack trade 6. Orgunise a General Strike to Bring Down the Tory None of the measures needed to doal with the prasent crisis can be carried to succuss as long as the Tory soycatibeat is left in office to mastermind the prosat aconemic sebotage and attacks on the working class. Whik simply removing the Tories will not seive all the present problems conly the destruction ete. af mapitalism will do that) nevertheless smashing the present government is a neccasary step to begin to sehe all the problems which cottont the socking class. This government is vital for To ruling class. It will not be gotrid of by ramby ramby aclien of pleas. Only the most unired and decisive action can be sure to forue the Tories out -this means a general sarike This is the aim which the working class movement must now set stell. A General Strike can achieve more than the downfall of the Tories It sin open up the way to socialison In particular, it can begin to pur the control of the crocomy and the organisa boo of the state in the hands of the working class It can begin to move towars a new type of poscramient not like past Labour governments which based themselves on the lay-off pay. capitilist state (the police, army and civil sevice) and which, as a result, could not act against the capitalist soonomy, huta real workers golument THE RIGHT Reposes QUE: