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The Machine fool industry continues Its prices in order to stimulate demand in the of pay. rapid decline. But figures show that it face of a diminishing market has forced 'run down'-long before the increase in them to carry out a two-pronged attack- industries!

promotion & women teacher FUL The Trade Union and Labour Party leaders are now leading the chorus for the implementation of import controls in the Car industry, Machine tools, Clothing and Textiles.

The car industrialists are crying in despair about the sale of Japanese cars on the British market with Sir Michael Edwardes of BL making overtures to union leaders, Duffy (AUEW) and Evans (TGWU) with a view towards joint discussions with the government.

The TUC are already meeting ministers on behalf of ailing capitalist companies in order to prop them up against foreign capitalists by introducing trade barriers. capitalists by introducing trade barriers.

This traditional nationalism of British This traditional nationalism of British labour leaders is mirrored by their labour leaders is mirrored by their American counterparts, who are also American counterparts, who are also calling for cut backs, and in some cases, calling for cut backs, and in some cases, "I never cease to be amazed that women are penalised for having children, but men are promoted because they have a family to support."

Women teachers in England and Wales generally are lower paid and have lower status than their male colleagues. These facts cannot simply be explained by the fact that most part-timers are women, that qualifications are different in many cases, or by the concentration of women in primary schools where the scope for promotion to scale posts is limited.

In 1976, the NUT Ad Hoc Committee on Equal Opportunities launched a Survey on "Promotion and the Woman Teacher" in order to test out whether or not there is discrimination against married and single women teachers and whether women total bans on the importation of foreign' British vehicles!

Both sets of officials are seemingly oblivious to the fact that an action by one side can easily be matched by the other. Meanwhile the economic crisis continues to worsen.

US car manufacturers continue to lay off thousands of car workers with thousands more losing their jobs entirely:

In Britain, one of the biggest heavy vehicle manufacturers, Fodens, has recently sacked 630 workers and called in the Official Receiver: some estimates put their losses in the first quarter of 1980 at £16million.

was lack of investment which started the machine tool imports. for both internal and external promotion, for both internal and external promotion, and a final section on motivation and a final section on motivation.

82% of the women considered themselves to be consciously pursuing a career and the 18% who answered no to this question were uniformly spread across the whole age group. If anything, married women with children were more positive in answering this question than single women.

A similar proportion of all categories of women also rejected the suggestion that breadwinners of families should be given jobs in preference to others.

77% of married women considered their jobs as important as their husbands (with 7% considering them more important) but only 20% would accept promotion which would necessitate moving house and a change of job for the husband.

When asked to rank seven reasons for seeking promotion the majority placed British employers moved large amounts of capital to more profitable areas of the world.

Meanwhile the Clothing and Textile industry faces its severest crisis ever.

industry has been closing down an average of 2 factories per week as the crisis of capitalism hits sales in the high street.

-Big name stores like Marks & Spencers, Littlewoods, British Home Stores and Woolworths are reducing staff and putting others on a four day week.

Their attemnte to maintain last vears?

the above measure coupled with an attack "What are your child-bearing prospects" rities: "What are your child-bearing "I was asked for details of my family "I was asked for details of routine."

"Did I have a fiance"

*Have you thoughts of a further family" (of a 41 year old separated woman with 2 children over 16).

Are men applicants asked about their child-bearing prospects?

More than a fifth of the women applying for promotion felt they had been discriminated against because of their sex and half of the whole group were asked questions about their personal lives. Older women also felt age discrimination was used against them.

Many women return from a break for having children to a part-time job at first. The report rorrectly points to the way these are used by Local Education Authomembers!

It is not surprising therefore that those bureaucrats are the most vocal in calling for what they see as an easy option-a policy of Import Controls.

workers This call has now become their substitute for any serious action to defend the interests of textile workers.

Union leaders and employers are at one in claiming that the decline is due entirely to the importation of cheap goods from the super-exploited workers of India, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Such horror stories are frequently told in the pages of Textile union journals.

As far as Britain is concerned, textile imports are recorded at 24% and as more and more workers turn towards these cheaper garments, in an attempt to offset the massive assault on their own living standards, this percentage must grow.

Yet retaliatory measures here would put up the price of textiles in Britain, cause unemployment abroad, and inevitably affect the £442.3 million of good exported from Britain to Hong Kong.

Nothing is resolved by the calls from the Communist Party, Labour leaders and employers alike for import controls-selective or otherwise.

There can be no solutions outside of cross union alliances committed to policies of total defence of the jobs, conditions, and wages of the workers of these industries.

Central | to these policies must be opening the books to expose the financial secrets of the above manufacturers.

Occupy threatened plants: don't share the poverty-share the work, without loss of pay.

Against nationalist Import Cc Against nationalist Import Controls.

For workers ownership of these basic For workers ownership of thes industries! rities:

"The main problem with this of *The main problem with this option is that part-time posts tend to be provided only in "fringe" subjects. The women who take up these posts are then the first to suffer when cuts are made"

The danger of falling outside the Employment Protection Act and being restricted to scale 1 are also mentioned.

The analysis of the returned questionnaire reveals that the number of married women teachers with children is equalised by the combined numbers of single parents and single women with elderly dependents-a little known fact, the NUT suspect, and one which knocks down the popular conception of the woman teacher working for pin money and more interested in the family-as of course does the whole report.

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