the run-down of work at our hospital. We offer assurances to the Community Health Counci. the public, and in particular to our no way be impaired, and indeed where possible will be improved.
Belleving that we cannot alone defend our bospital against do support Wework inclose relationship with the Area and District Jaiot Shop slow Trades Union Council and the Labour Movement in general. such operations as picket lines and other related activities, when managersent tries to break our work-in. •We look to the Labour moveus ensure that hospital equipment is nor moved and structural Jeadtowards closure. Solidarity of the London Ambulance Service WHILSCC paricars are no whisked away in the dark of night..
DETERMINATION We bare showo our delermina ion by operating a work-in. Asth •losure date draws near, we anti trick and threat to break us. Knowing that unity streneth, management's first at temprs have been almed at diviting us. This we have withstood. Next they beran puttine pressure on general practitioners and con ultants alike to starve us of patients and staff at our hospital. We will, however, take no part in staff transfers, closure of beds, refusing admissions or any other activity that leads to atients, hoping thus to demoral made the work-moncial.
Thus far have succeeded, with the help of our friends, in keeping the hospital well used.
Soon management will move coTOTE WELCLOOD TOAALIO LO LIML event we shall be forced onto the offensive. The Defence Committee will perform is cutes as an Occupation Committee, and only those actively supporting the We refuse to accept the AH. plea that Government sovernment's entir 7 cut-backs in public expend ture, whether it be in bealth, education, transport or building We reject private medicine and believe that every NHS hospital that closes opens the door widerto paying hospitals. We want to se the NHS restructured, so that it is run by and in the interests of the workine people of this countr and is free toall at thetimeof nee We call for a massive injection of fundsintothesHs DEMOCRATIC LINES 'We want the NHS rub on more democratic lines, so that the voice of the public, the health workers and the patients are all reckone We believe that hospit closures are a false economy and Public expenditure cuts have not brought about the revival of industry. The working people of this country economic crisis wbich is not of their making. Theright to a decent living, to decent shelter, to goo HERE BEL COON DECEMBER COEI modities available only to those who can afford the price. while drug companies make mil workers are unemplo countless numbers are bomeless;
demand for the right to work goes unheard, while factories remain PROFITS ELSEWHERE *What this country is facing is a capitalists who seck their profits elsewbere - in the EEC, Spain, South Africa, ete.
•When nurses cake to the streets When hospotal through artificial barriers and unite to defend service, insisting on patient care to tbe needy, then it is lear that they are become isolated from our allies, ouT general practitioners, from conultants, from other workers, ou work-in will fail. never been to hold an empty building *To succeed we need the help the active help — of all who want to defend the NHS."
Hounslow Phone 01-570 4448. Ask for Sit (Secretary)
(JSCC): Chris Potber, Brecker.
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and this is what they say.... 'In occupying Hounslow Hospital by "working-in" we are not taking away from the Area Health Authority the resonsibility they have in law for the