Home Policy

1. The urgent nationalisation of the steel and docks industries is a vital need, They should be placed under workers! management. 2. Before any other steps are taken towards an incomes policy, open the books of all private firms to inspection by workers representatives, 3. Immediate help must go to local authorities to launch a real housing drive for a housing target of not less than 750,000 per year. This must be helped by allowing the local authorities to obtein loans from the Public Works Loans Board at much less than the prevailing rate of interest.(The Plan's "hope" for a half a million houses by 1970, condemns millions of people to die in slums.) 4. There must be a national fuel policy that makes full use of our existing fuel supplies, which will entail a proper place for the coal-mining industry, far from a policy of pit-closures, The nationalisation of the oil industry will be required, so that a proper fuel policy can be worked out, not through competition of coal, oil or gas, but by integration. 5. The same considerations apply to the transport industry. — 6. The setting-up of popularly elected regional planning authorities. is the only way to lead into a genuine national planning body. Such a body must be directly responsive to the needs of the people and not those of the market,