"In 1949 there were 903 borough nurseries in Britain. There were 453 in 1970... In London a recent survey showca mat porougas providco day nursery places for only 1% per cent of under fives:
"Women's unemployment is rising at twice the rate of men's. Since 1974 it has risen at the rate of 106 per cent compared to 50 per cent amongst men."
"Some local authorities are considcrime payme relauvcs to care for une needy at home. In practice this "return до communny care forces women back into the isolation of the home to take on the "community's" responsibilities.
Inese were some of the points made by delegates, and the resolution passed by the conference outlines a vigorous programme of action needed to take up the hieht against these attacks. the initiatives delegates pledged themselves to support were the NCC/NALGO demonstration against cuts in the NHS, the Right to Work March and Rally in London, and the Labour Movement Assembly on unemployment. on 27 March. An important amendment also called for an immediate recall of the TUC and Labour Party conferences' to demand a break with the Government's rightWInE DonCIes Last weekend's conference was living proof of the need to link up the presThe workers movement has suffered a pay, despite official union (AUEW) backing.
6 6 The management didn't take us seriously at first, but after the third or fourSOMe Ol th day they realised we were here to stav Most people have been good about not crossing une picker une. mougn con t know what it would be like if we were not nere to make sure But this strike pay business is getting some of the girls down. The young single ones who live on their own and can t pay the rent are going to be the first to break. They are already talking about accepting the latest offer, but most of us are determined to stay out.
*It's ridiculous when you think about it. There's supposed to be a law now making it illegal not to pay women equal SUSAN KENYON ition and responsibilities made it impossible for her to participate in the life of the organisation to the limits she always demanded of herself and so amply demonstrated.
She never reduced her level of political activity right up to the last week of her life. This year she was delegated once more from Sheffield to the NUT's national conterence, and as secretary of the Sheffield Working Women's Charter Committee was involved at the end or ner lie in organising a delegation to the national Charter ConTerence The teacher comrades of the IMG, with whom she did so much of her work, will remember especially ner speecn to 2,000 delegates last year at the Blackpool conference of the NUT. 'I stand before conference and register my disgust that the leadership of this union, predomin antly women, can pay such scant regard to the particular problems of working women in this society!
Unfortunately it is not only the union leaders who scab in this way Susan's life was an example and a lesson to all militants. Her best memorial is a renewed determination to continue the struggle. Women at the GEC factory on the Treforest Trading Estate at Pontypridd have been on strike for four weeks over equal pay after all the male workers were regraded by management. They are asking for the minimum semi-skilled male wage, which would mean an increase of £3.45 a week. The latest offer was £2.50 and the women are determined to stay out until they get the full amount. Morale is high, although they have received no strike picket line talked to Red Weekly last week about what's at stake.
strike for what's ours by right.
so that we everything it is made out to be.
Some of the women on the wages, and here we are out on strike and the management thinking they can get away with it. We shouldn't have to be on *Everybody though that with the Eq ual Pay Act women would have total eq uality. They must have been dreaming. Our employers hadn't even started talking about it until a few months ago. They took all une men away trom our section sore with guld have any men to comRed Weekly has been saying for some time that there was going to be a spate of struggles around equal pay. This particular crisis makes the employers highly reluctant to pay out the money necessary to give
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