Wolfe Tone | Socialist Action 1983

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Your next wage rise: Photo: CARLOS AUGUSTO GUARITA (Photon)

MY LAST WISH O GIVE lILE'S RING THE П 10 % government week proadded: gentlemen.

Meanwhile, are chatting the — see pages 8 & 9 Pinochet said that the had been tolerant in allowing the two days of national protest, but *That iS it, to Admiral Merino from the junta, who is over here for arms talks. Tories want you to have in the next year.

the coming year the government should try to keep down wage increases to just 2 per health workers, postal workers, teachers, local government workers, steelworkers are all on the 2 per cent hit list.

The CBI Tories know full well that this amounts to a substantial decrease in Ical His standards for yet another year.

Inflation The inflation rate now around s per cent. Bv the autumn the government knows tul. wel that it will be up again.

The ones cynicism, in their objective of forc was shown last week when the new Chancellor Nigel those in the public sector to this balmy challenge the leaderships.

Murray expressed a wish talks with the government. But vou have COl structive talks with those determined to crush you?

The TUC must break off all talks with the government and withdra the NEDC and all joint consultative bodies We need a national plan of action against falling living standards and jobs loss.

And the leaderships of the public SCCLOT must urgently arrange on wase cans are n dustrial action fight • LIOSC La huge public sector alliance to take on the Tories.

Organise Make no mistake wage cuts were explicitly linked with job loss in the Tory-CBI statement. Now is the time to organise a fight.

Last year the health workers fought for nine months and got precious little from it •thanks to the sabotage of the TUC It's going to be une same dismal story all over again, caucis ol movement are forced into

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SOCiALiSt ACTION Chile protest

• Ten years ago in Chile Central America Caribbean 5 July, 4.30-7.30pm Gerry Adams page 7

Picket the US Embassy commemoration 'WAFER THIN' - that's how the Times the wage increases which the At a meeting with the Confederation of British Industry, Thatcher agreed that in The government will set an 'example' by trying to keep down wage increases for