Vice president, Nottingham Trades Council, personai capacity LED BY Thoresby miners' band, 800 trade unionists marched on the offices of the Nottingham Evening Post on Saturday to form a mass picket.
The pickets represented journalists, print workers, engineers, public sector workers and many other trades and industries from all country - all in support of the 28 locked out journalists victimised for taking part in the journalists' strike last winter.
We were opposing a particularly violent anti-union management which since 1973 smashed organisation within the plant and by so doing has made 300 printworkers Central to this triumph of modern management Christopher Carew, managing director of the paper, High Sheriff of NottinghamBURY Tory councillor Evelyn Waite has a simple philosophy. It could be described as "suffer little white I go to Portugal.
weeks ago she casting vote to impose, for the first time, fines on old age pensioners and children who return library late. The move, Waite told the local press, was to teach children 'a sense of responsibility' R But Waite's 'sense of responsibility' is such that she is going on an all-expenses paid trip to Portugal to watch the filming show It's a Knockout.
Waite will be person council delegation which will cost Bury's ratepayers £1,500.
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until 5.20pm over the provinicial that we were few arrests were made.
Eventually effective proved too much for us, delivery vans through — the Post's sports editions.
PoleNottingham and Local all cuts in public Cuts galore children A CALL Authority to used her Southwark and example and books Colchester Trades Council.
the trades council campaign.
of the BBC-TV has Just part of a three of Nursing shire, and a close friend of the area's | early We were not alone on Saturday. In case Nottinghamshire's police force proved unequal to the task, police reserves had been drawn in from other areas, and for further "protection', the company had hired bouncers from We massed outside the gates and prevented anything lishing from moving. Yet as more and more police reserves were being marched up in military fashion it became clear going to pe greatly outnumbered. A melée ensued and a the constabulary and four break well behind schedule for There will be other pickets, and we need more people on them. But these in and of themselves are insufficient.
Trades Council The Bury branch of the National Officers' Government Association has protested against the introduction of the library fines and has launched a local campaign to fight caciallule • Essex Area Health follow the Lambeth, Lewisham AHA'5 reruse lo. Impicnichl these vicious cuts' has been made by The call came at the launching by an anti-cuts Hazel Smith, secretary of the cuts campaign and a member of the heaith union COHSE, said: 'Conditions are so bad in the Essex area hospitals that received national notoriety because of a Royal College report criticising standards in some Essex tiospitals.. convening a working conference in November, charged with the task of planning and implementing a comprehensive boycott of supplies and advertising.
The Post has shown a willingness to use any method, legal or otherwise, to defeat the unions. The weakness on the union side has been the lack of coordination and disunity. In estabeffective boycotts, weaknesses have be overcome locally and nationally.
As the National Union Journalists discusses country-wide Again re-instatement of members, the TUC and the branches of every union whose members have any dealings with the Post should take up the fight for a boycott.
In this way, we will be able to move together in November to smash Pole-Carew's bastion of anti-trade unionism.
'If the hospitals are struggling to keep going now, how are we going to manage with yet more cuts?' The anti-cuts campaign hopes to draw together all sections labour movement. It will launch a cuts bulletin to highlight and monitor any expenditure cuts in and around Colchester.
Further information:
Smith, COHSE, Essex Hall, 45 Mill Rd, Colchester.
Switch on A GLIMMER of light in the long cold Surtiner Tonighi of September repeats on at 10.15pm BBC showing again Spongers, Jim Allen's brilliant play about a woman's attempts to obtain social security benefits.
Set in the context flas-waving Jubilee celebrations in 1977, the play stabs a knife in the guts of the real scroungers. such of the sacked the Hażel to kill to be drawn from August of 49-year-old Ken Cummins, years al ment, near Reading The nad a medical plutonium in his lungs. An emergency operation failed to stop the cancer YOU don't have to drop nuclear Said Geoff: 'It was horrifying.
people manufacture them. That's the verdict could see the death on 10 thinner each day. who 'wasted away' after working for handling of atomic waste.
the Aldermaston Transport Atomic Weapons Research EstablishLast week the victim's brother, Geoff Cummins, revealed that Ken death.
October when it was discovered that by the Aldermaston authorities he had four times the safe level of years ago when traces of contamination were Cummins' body. tide is no longer running in the companies?
He just wasted away to virtually nothing. You him getting thinner Ken Cummins' job involyed the Now the and General Workers • Union officials at Aldermaston are planning to take the Ministry of Defence to court over their member's AmOng EE questions to be answered is why no action was taken first recorded Кеп
needs to be clarified. conference on 'Democratic accountability in demand the TUC and Labour Party leaders
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