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committee, So, too, Parties nurses, to be and settling-in perks the Knight added.
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and staff Denise generally, books.
But already IT'S not every day that a local council leads a march on Parliament with the message: "We're not implementing your cuts'. That's what Lambeth's Labour council and the local trade unions did on Wednesday of last week, and ten thousand people from the South borough joined in the lobby of MPs and sat in the rally which followed.
'The banners of all the unions representing the council workers were there, together with a large proportion of those workers.
were members of the Labour Lambeth and Wandsworth, delegation of Kent miners in their orange safety clothes and helmets, firefighters in health workers, some five hundred local teachers and as many school students. The SE Regional TUC added its banner and voice.
Three quotes. At the rally, Lambeth council leader Ted Knight said: 'We've decided to make no cuts whatsoever under the direction of the Tory government. (Sustained applause.) Every Labour councillor was elected on a mandate to defend the working class, not to attack it.
We must not be permitted to stand alone,' 'The official leaders of the movement deserted the Clay councillors. Every Labour councillor must take the same stand as Lambeth, and we must have support of the movement.' (Lengthy and Esther Priory School, who were among the NUSS contingent at the front of the demo, said: "There's no chance of equality of opportunity when half the schools are closing and you don't get enough London uniform, influence the Cross contacts in high places.' Park were not simply a local issue.
rid of the Tory government.
message.
London.
The city council, dominated by a CAMBETH mobilisation for the demonst against the cuts on Wednesday, Z called by the Labour Party, towards the one-day strikes the measure that can reat their tracks: an all-out strike. And among the copies of Lambeth Fich 8-page paper five hundred who Challenge Details of Lambe Lambeth Trades Co include a Worsley FE rally at for example, at which over in Manchester spending NUPE are management, being filled, restored.
Weston-super-Mare the now against the cuts by year 1980-81.
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