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EVIDENCE

There is no shortage of evidence of police brutality in this case. One parent found a youth at the station bent double, his head wet from being forced down a lavatory.

One youth was eyewitness to another: "They started beating him up by his neck and by the time they reached his stomach he was of 12 accused The opportunism of the Conference on Youth Unemployment" in London on February 13th.

Bob Wright, contender for the General Secretaryship of the AUEW who has no record whatsoever of initiating action against the social contract expressed his pleasure that it was now in shreds.

Jack Dromey, leading London Stalinist, ranted against the damage wreaked by the social contract, the destruction of branch and work place life through the removal of negotiating, and the danger of unions being incorporated in the state.

These postures came from leading members of the very Party which has constantly held back the fight to break wage control and which argued in favour of the Ryder participation plan and even the fringe benefit contract, So overwhelmingly rejected throughout the car industry recent in weeks.

Many speakers called for action and an end to rhetoric, but in fact the only action proposed was a series of propaganda demonstrations and pickets in the coming months. These demands were put to the meeting without any discussion at all and no chance of amendments.

Such policies in no way met up to the anger from the floor of the meeting about conditions facing youth, particularly the non-unionon the tort witH WIDE.

NUPE How wit they ever deprives the of one of its weapons increases.

This attempt at sabotage was greeted with the derision and contempt it deserved.

Students must now agitate for occupations and direct action as soon as possible on the demands outlined above.

The LSE are now in occupation and Essex are to occupy from 21st February. Unfortunately the conference failed to agree on the establishment of a national committee to coordinate a series of national ised cheap labour "job creation' and 'work experience' schemes, but also the drop in apprenticeships, low pay and sheer length of the dole queues.

Pious sentiments about the need for an alternative economic strategy including the reactionary policy of import controis, were expressed, and the need for a society which made a rational use of the world's resources and which rewarded workers for the wealth they produce.

But there was no was no hint of a strategy to force such policies through.

In contrast to this bankruptcy the WSL calls for trades councils and public sector unions to organise strike action to force through a programme of useful public works at proper union rates, based on an investigation of real unemployment and numbers of perspective school leavers.

• We call for a comprehensive and compulsory system of apprenticeships and day release, and for all-out opposition, backed by strike action to natural wastage, redundancies etc. and instead for work sharing on full pay including part-timers.

We also call for the full involvement of youth themselves in these Wright (centre/ policies and the unionisation of all unemployed workers including school leavers,. Labour MPs must fight for all these policies both inside and outside Parliament against the policies of Callaghan and Healey and the social contract.

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SERVICE • - VES PANSE Students join trade unionists in Aylesbury cuts This failure is quite serious ference will not now be tapped.

Nevertheless, by making clear its opposition. to existing NUS policy, and its determination to fight fee increases, the conference has provided a basis from which a national struggle can be waged.

But that struggle can only be successful if students raise demands to change the existing NUS leadership. The opportunity to further that struggle is the NUS Conference on March 28th.

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