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Bosses with an eye to the slump are also investing less and running down their stocks of raw materials and finished goods. Private manufacturing investment is expected to have fallen by 15% in the year 198081, and may drop by as much as 30% in the 18 months between January 1980 and June 1981.' New technology The dwindling investment that is taking place is angled towards new technology to maximise production with the minimum number of workers.

The effect on overall employment is shattering. So far over one million jobs have been wiped out in the present recession-a far larger and faster decline than any neriod since Trial sub (UK).

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Over 100 trade unionists took time off work to join a lobby of a Fife County Council meeting last Tuesday in protest against cuts in local government spending.

Among the lobbyers were 50 manual workers from the roads department who had staged a half-day strike in order to participate, and a contingent from the nearby GEC plant.

A speaker from the Fife ISOCIALIST REINSTATE PRESS XAVIER! CONWAY Longoridge: new sell-out DI DICAEN YNANIDV' RIVVLV INqUIN I WON'T REINSTATE si.r Strike now to stop Edwardes! full council meeting, where he called for the council to stand firm against Tory spending cuts.

The Labour group is to meet on Monday to finalise its budget proposals. The Action Committee will decide its next steps on Friday.

MARCH AND RALLY AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT Called by Central Region Against Unemployment Stirling 7 February Issemble 10.30 a.m.

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duoess Employers in Scotland have begun to seek ways of exploiting the mass unemployment to increase exploitation.

A number of textile mills have begun to cut bonus payments. And one Courtaulds subsidiary-Lyle and Scott in Rosyth has gone so far as to cut wages.

This has been met by strike action from the usually far from militant National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers. The plant has been at a standstill for a week There is no doubt that if Courtaulds are allowed to carry through this attack other employers will hasten to follow suit-and poverty line wages will follow in the wake of chronic unemployment.

JO THE WSL ! Socialist League. Charter they had known and loved and there was a distinct air of panic as one of them called for a postal ballot of the membership (!) on the question.

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in the event the motion was defeated by two to one, but if the furious discussions in the corridor after the conference were anything to go by that vote represented the beginning of a debate rather than the end of one.

At the end of the day it was a healthier Journalist Charter in terms of its programme and politics which emerged. Socialist Press will be watching further Developments with interest.

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