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Have That Right, Micheal O’ Leary, who happens to be a. minister for Labour. Our Branch Secretary wr®te to him a letter enquirying about alternative employment prospects for us. He wrote us back the following letter:
“| refer to your letter of the 10th of September 1974 concerning the threatened closure of Danus in the city of Limerick. The Manpower Service has been in touch with the management of Danus and is assessing the employment prospects of the workers should they be laid off. You can be assured that the Manpower Service will do everything possible to help those workers.”
Last week one of our workers went to the Manpower Service and asked for a job, and they told him not to be bothering them and that there were no jobs for any of us!
But | must say before | finish that we haven't really discussed the future of the struggle yet. # Some of us are thinking about things like nationalisation and workers control, but these things haven't been discussed in detail by all the workers. Nonetheless, we are learning fast and experience is teaching us more every day. If we keep on learning then | am sure we will win.
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prices and how socialists should fight to defend workers living standards. The following article is part of an article by Ernest Mandel, a leader of the Fourth International. It deals with the way employers and government manipulate wages and