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is launching a large scale campaign against unemployment and the cuts in the next month.

This follows the setting up of an unemployment sub-committee in June, whose work led to the proposing of a demonstration and two public meetings designed to illuminate the political points involved in fighting for jobs and against cut-backs in public services.

The Trades Council is putting forward a fighting programme for a campaign in the unions, which avoids the reactionary demands for import controls that are the stock in trade of the bureaucracy and their bargerson in the Communist One o: the most important slogans of the campaign is the call for a programme of public works under trade union control.

This is the only alternative to the fraudulent "job creation" and "work experience" schemes put forward by the government.

The sole intention of these projects is to stifle the frustration of school leavers by shoving a small proportion of them into dead end "jobs" with slave labour rates of pay with the close prospect of a return to the dole queues.

Every attempt is being made by the Trades Council to get those on the dole to join the unions so that the strength of all workers can be brought into play on the side of the unemployed.

The importance of this is shown by the situation in a local firm, Pottertons, whose shop stewards have accepted voluntary redundancy as the easiest way out of the fight for jobs.

This comes down to selling jobs and the Trades Council has taken a principled line of opposition to this calling for a stop to voluntary redundancy and the filling of all vacancies.

This programme is to be pushed into the limelight by the Trades Council, starting with a special meeting and social for unemployed youth, where a tim and a pertormance by the Red Ladder Theatre Group will be followed by discussion on how unemployment can be fought.

Two big public meetings follow which are designed to build up support for the demonstration on November 27th.