Queen's Speech: Sweets for Liberals, Nothing for Workers

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Even a fine tooth comb run through the Queen's Speech would reveal nothing of benefit to the working class.

Every measure is designed benefit the Liberals.

A martian visitor would be forgiven for thinking that this government had no relationship to the working class other than a bitter hostility to it.

No wonder Liberal leader Steel welcomed the legislative programme and defended the coalition for *creating stability"

Steel hopes this "stability" will ensure the introduction of a thoroughly Liberal programme.

Everything they could wish for was there-workers' participation; profit sharing help for small businesses and a tightening of the Common Market noose:

"Legislation providing for the election of United Kingdom members of the European Assembly will be reintroduced."

Collaboration

Every effort will be made to increase class collaboration:

*Further consultations Troney. democracy, with a view to will be held on industrial producing proposals which should command general support and my Ministers will continue directly to encourage the development of industrial democracy in the nationalised industries."

'General support" means of course support from the employers and the Liberals, noi from the working class.

Further joy for the bosses is also to be found in the measures to assist small firms. And Ministers will also hold "consultations about encouraging profit-sharing through the tax system."

The speech wittered on with such irrelevant points as:

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Addres Trade Lnio Trade Union Occupation. Occupation.

31 Dartmout of the electricity and reform of the fisheries Genuine policies to fight unemployment (which was mentioned only through the bogus and irrelevant job creation and work experience schemes) were entirely absent.

Social services

Also absent was mention of improvements to housing, the health service, education or any other of the services which the government-both in and out of coalition-has been so viciously attacking.

The only area where there was the appearance of any gesture other than a two fingered one towards the working class was in the suggestion that Post Office workers might be "given" the right to strike.

The coalition did not of course see this as a right for the UPW to seize but as something to be negotiated with numerous employers' bodies in the following order:

"The Liberal Party, the Post Office, the unions and the Post Office Users NationTom Jackson, UPW General Secretary and long-time government and employers' lapdog, was suitably "delighted" and "hoped that legislation would be produced soon."

The right to strike is not a concession to be doled out by governments but something for the working class to assert and take.

In the same way workers must force a break in the Lib-Lab coalition and the expulsion of the crypto and less crypto Tory right wing leadership of the Labour Employers The Queen's Speech offers us nothing but the further attempt to give all to the Liberals and the employers they represent.

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