tional importance.
In its most recent devetion of the 400 strikers has begun to alter the attitudes leadership, and even the structure of the local branen, which 1s one of the largest and most important in the union.
After having at first refused to sanction the necessary escalation or tne strike to include other secLIONES workers, when lobbied at the Blackpool, the NALGO National Executive a week later did a U-turn.
They sent John Daly, the deputy General Secretary elect, to speak in favour of escalation at a Liverpool branch meeting Photo: Socialist Worker Liverpool city council typists, now entering the 15th week of their strike for regrading, received two important boosts last week, rirst, terr umon, NALGu agreed to increase weekly strike pay from £20 to 55 per cent of their gross salary.
main breadwinner in job-starved Liverpool this decision prevents them from being driven back to work.
More important was the clerks who work in the rent offices. take action in support of the typists, which should cut off an important source of the council's weekly. Conde mination that they have stayed out and picketed for so long, without any visible signs of the city coming to a halt. TOO little attention has been given in Socialist Challenge to the now three-month old Liverpool NALGO typists strike. This is an epic struggle by low-paid women workers of naon Monday 21 September This tollowed a week during which two memDCIS Jett Grittiths the City Solicitors and Joe Walsh of the City Treasury had been laid off for refusing to co-operate with management who had lett NALGO break the strike. These layoffs resulted in immediate mass walkouts these departments. The call for escalation was carried.
The Liverpool typists have shown that they are capable of taking on lowpay, a Liberal-Tory Council who refuse to negotiate Line management and the NALGO bureaucracy and all this the odds of million As many of the typists are single parents, or the successful ballot of They voted to It is a mark of the women's courage and deterlowest paid ana most oppressed members.
For all this • and on only £20 a week strike pay - they deserve more suptrom Challenge.
Send messages of support, collections and donations to Typists Strike CommitDuchy Chambers, 24 Sir Thomas Street, Liverpool 1. Russell's Altered States Michael Cimino's is very amusing. says about the Russell film total ly misses the point Geoff interprets it as a fable about Russell's work, he now realises that it has been empty and meaningless. speculation. The story was written as a novel by Paddy Chayevsky, not by Ken Russell.
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Pure Indeed, to it Absolutely very Marxist.