Equal Pay Fight
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fh a situation where unemployment is saaring, Lt is not surprising thet it is the issue which played the centre atege throughout the eleetian campoign: in the Sauth, It is unlikely either, that as the crisis of the ccoamemy rontinies to esrslyte that any attempts tT Jugele cash in arder ta decrease pressure Will affect the Jenetieniog dole queves,As workers living standards slide backwards, and pressure for jobs incrpases, the search tor a scapegoat Mones more PrMiouwiced.and the atrigele of worn workers takes on a res@unding alenificance, Oo, of the surest,and St practiced mothads which the bosses and the (avertiient will uae to defuse the preagurce fer joke and force hack living standurds,is oy playing an the weal of tale workers and the refusal In Mast cases.0f the tale deminated unions to ficht far the riektis of Wott as workers. t is women whe will find themselves increasingly beise used as the scapemtats of the crisis, heine ferced to wecept greater wage differentials -in order te get jobs,and having ta fight thelr own fellay workers for the eiest to work, :
Tht strategic significance of the Equed Pay struggle at the present time Tests in the fact that it is a vital testine pelat,net only for women, but iden Mewenent, The forced acceptance at haa Left the scoot with an explasive th: majority of want work in,and the with ever OEY Tlajer giiconss, towards a eqnitty. Por wanen it would be a turtle UrnLarLis ts, Rat the reverse is alse true,and if the acrisgles af women wherever they arise.
clawer io the National Wace Agrecnent Pio. .0, dn spite af there bedi gtk