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government's 5% limit toppled Callaghan Jack Smart, Labour leader of services and living standards to the Association of Metropolitan be destroyed than mount a fight paid workers.

The Tories the gauntlet movement.

had thrown down to the workers' Crumpled But what did the union leaders do? Throughout the public sector they immediately crumpled before the arrogant stand taken by the Tories.

Instead of preparing for all-out strike action to smash the 6% limit and bring down this savage government of bankers, industrialists and profiteers, top union officials made only vague blathering speeches.

Seizing on this weakness, the government has now revealed nlane to extend the 6% limit for another year: and to follow it, in April 1982, with even more vicious pay restrictions!

In other words, this year's 10% cut in real wages will be followed by another, and another until ... the labour movement is mobilised to throw Thatcher and her thieving cabinet out of office!

Nor is it simply on wages that the Tories plan to swing the axe again. Already they have Mass struggles against Labour & left a trail of wreckage across the country.

Millionaire minister Michael ADVA Heseltine proposes to cut spending on old people's homes, schools, youth clubs and roads. His henchmen in the Housing Department are planning even more cuts in council housing. The list is endless.

So outrageous are the Tory plans that they are refusing to make them public.

But so too are Labour council leaders, who have been issued with the draft proposals! Councils. said that the nlans should be kept confidential. MAIN If not, he "feared" there would be a backlash from leftwing Labour councils!

It is high time that there was a backlash against this government-which is hated and detested throughout the workers' movement.

But right wing Labour councillors, union leaders and Labour MPs have no intention of allowing such a mass struggle. They would sooner allow social to oring the lores down.

That this is not the feeling of the working class was underlined by the huge November 29 anti-Tory march.

A leadership must be built that is able and willing to lead workers in a struggle to defeat this government-if there is to be anything left of our living standards in 1984.

Help us build that leadership.

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Wednesday 10 December

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TO: Ian Mackintosh. IFL MONS IFU