Workers from across West
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Statement from the of the Fourth International No to Western Europe -wide demonstration in Stuttgart on June 4th called by the Zuropean Confed eration of trade unions.
About 50,COO workers from West Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Britain, Switzerland, Italy Denmark, the Netherlands, Turkey and a small number from Ireland took part.
This was the first Rurope-wide demonstration of this scope for more than 50 years.
The demonstration was clearly a success and an excellent first step in a Europe-wide fight for the 35-hour week. The Fourth International participated in the march and distributed a leaflet with proposals on how we can start to organise to win the 35-hour week, We print below some extracts from the leaflet:.
NEMPLOYMENT CAN BE FOUGHT AND BEATEN!
he fight against unemployment can be on if we do not let ourselves be divthe 35-hour week ‘Same problems, same fight’ for European workers (DR) erted by false arguements... There is only one immediate way of fighting unemployment - the immediate and general reduction of the working week to 35 hours, without any cut in weekly wages, without any speedup, and without any worsening of working conditions, and with new hiring to match the reduction of workhours,..
The year 1984 must go down in history as the year the 35-hour week was won: