Lose down our direct labour Sake. around million pounds a year, but would pur building workers on th would end up hav•Day 14018 , money throngh social security and unemployment So the whole thing doesn't make sense We decidedao organise a Saturday 17 January Open to all 1 Credentials from: Steering Committee, Lambeth. Town Hall, Brixton Hill, Brixion, London SW2 Lambeth conference The direet labour has never -been of strike before, apari from days of action.
Welve i bad mccungs in every section of che department and we've honestly explained the situa There's nothing to be achieved by telling workers you always get caught out in the end. So. we told them alk the facts about the pour movement organisations Photo: Joanne © Brien implications of Tory cut Not on member has against the week of action everywhere demonstration always ignore demonstrations or make oul that there only new tone people on them so they car say you've not got any port. But if there's vices week, veryon ealis and the goern we've go! the suppor will be forced to in WICH fervene The union: say, because of the press , that stewards touch with thew memhers But what they don't tell you is that it's member themselves before there can be have agree PG 056. fight. That's what we're doing.
ment they will gradually in the end we'll win or lose of the conference, of notice of the there. They can use platform for themselves, get une unions the cuts.
disgusting. Thousands of people are iving in sub Tories are giving grants of £11,500 to private contrac tors to reno sell them to house old house.
andlords who will charge The DLO : Walente want to close down + could do the same job for the sam amount of mone accommodation for Lambeth Direct Labour Organisation and secretary of the largest building workers union branch in England, UCATI THE main thing that I want to see from conference. is solidarity action against the cuts. There's so much happen.
I've heard people from all over the country say seen that if you have a go at the govern back down.
What we want to do is have a bash at them.
depending on the assistance that we get. That's the aim Surely this is the time for the TUC to come along to the meeting and take a bit feelings of the people the conference as a and to start to moving against g senarate familie All that the system doe is make more пюпеу, fe those who've already got it All that we're say ing is that we want to fight and that people should support the stand that we're tak ing. We have to let the Tories know that the working class have had enough.
Socialist Challenge action member Lambeth conference steering committee told us: Support for the conference uilding up.
'The Workers union and General Workers conference, Lambeth IGWU, AUEW NUPE NALGO, UCATT and th OMWU •Lambeth yorkers calling for suppor or their week of action stai ing on 2 Februar be asked to build suppor The confere will also for a demonstration plann ed for Clapham Co South Londo Wedn day 4 rebruar The week of actio politiest strikes by direc worker sent and adds are ree Tory to the fight agains redundancies and cuts Lambeth council exar ort of every other pub *The conference will als 1iull struggler Leyland and the steel is 8 January 1981 Page !
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that they want to fight back, so why not Over the last couple of months we've