Detence Committee, 127 Crawford St, Rochdale, Lancs.
Anwar Fisher, who led the walk out, had an opportunity to turn his protest into national action when he attended the fringe meeting called by Lambeth Labour Party Group Lambeth council, outline why they should support a conference to plan strike action against further Tory cuts.
trades council and town hall unions, November conference, as Ted Knight said: "To decide to use whatever resources are at the disposal of the labour Be ma c dal as government in lls tracks.
ing one could reason with Thatcher and Heseltine in order to change their policies.
visiting 10 Downing St, Knight continued: 'The only way you will stop their attacks on working class living standards is to call a halt, and that means posing the question of how we use the strength of the labour movement to do precisely that.' work out how many people we are going to put on the dole.
Party Secretary Ron Lambeth felt it necessarv to hold a conference and weren't the Labour Party doing enough already, Knight replied with a categorical No.
the parliamentary leadership.
port for the conference. Earlier in the week NUPE general secretary Alan The Lambeth Labour Group, in conjunction with the have called the 1 He went on to say that it was no use any longer thinkThen in a thinly disguised attack on the TUC General Council's decision to deal with 2m unemployment by The only other option, he said, was to sit down and Referring to the letter he had received from Labour Hayward asking why He rejected the 'wait to the next election' approach of Alan Fisher pledged NUPE's full and unstinting supany further rates increases.
1 November.
mittee, Room 103, Lambeth Town Hall, London SW2. Tel: 01-274-7722 ext 2066 not just calling on the trade unions to take that action but committing themselves to also be on the line with those trade unionists; to commit themselves at this stage to not make more cuts: not to wait and see how November's conference goes but to undertake not to make any further cuts; not to sell any council houses and not to make The conference is to be held at Camden Town Hall on Further information and an application for credentials, from: Local Government in Crisis, National Labour and Trade Union Conference Organising Com Brixton Hill, POLICE action against the pickets at Adwest in Reading workers are on strike against vic timisation and sackings, is now being matched by massive fines.
Trials have been going on over the past month and are expected to go on month. On Friday two pickets were given huge fines following their arrests at the 14 July mass picket.
Danny Makanju has to pay over £300 in fines and costs after being convicted of throwing flour at the police. NGA print union official David Geary has to pay £100 after being found guilty of obstructing th police on the flimsiest evidence, which even the police said was unsure.
The next mass picket is outside the Adwest plant on Monday 22 September. On the following Wednes day Danny Broderick, the plant convener, will be up for triah. picket will take place outside «Readin magistrates court