To Unemployment

workforce were made reduns dant , and today the total closure of the plant seems only a matter of time, Just as the high hopes of Strathearn have been dashed so too the promises o the direct rule administration have also come to nought, Interviewed on television a few weeks ago, Denis Faulker (brother of the archbigot Faulker) Chairman of the Northern Ireland Dev-elopment Authority, the organisation charged -with bringing new jobs to the North,admitted that he had no plans for siteing any new industry in West Belfast, And what goes for West Belfast goes for all the nationalist districts of the 6 -counties, The major lesson which anti-unionist workers can draw from the never-changing monthly unemployment figures, the failure of Strathern and other pink elephants, is that there can be no solution to the problem of Catholic unemployment within the context of a partitioned Ireland, The only response which the leader ship of the Northern trade unions has made is the pathetic 'Better Life For All' campaign which .siuses to challange the sectarian character of the Northern Trish -statelet which itself guarantees that the most exploited and oppressed section of the population will always remain the lot of the Catholic workers, away with this is due in large part to the failure of antiunionist workers to organise inside the unions around the defense of their democratic right to work, good housing and social amenities and against the structural exclusion

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That the trade union leader- ship have been able to get