sall school of nursing. about miners and health workers. JOHN: A lot of miners agree the workers dispute but not a lot is being done. The miners in 1972 and that we could not have done it on our own. we nccuca te the healthworkers need our support now.
STEWART: You week some miner is colle need medical treatment. Last week the ambulance was out our that cross the picket line that muses vul us al lie Dils they dian t work because iney were too few.
MICHEI F• All in all there was on on picket eat te were icket line at the pits. It could have been better organised. Nothing was Cycl That was done by the local stewards, it was us that decided to I got a letter from COHSE telling us to stop serving out mess because our oo is usi to feed the patients. The trouMarkham Main Colliery, Stewart Berthwick from Yorkshire Main Colliery and Michele Oliver, Loverat the Yorkshire miners gala, ble is that that doesn't really nurt management, waitresses just have to do The decides who Lall emergency case and increlore what cover we operate One day strikes just mean that the dishes pile up till the next day when the go on and have to clean them all up. I inink it snoula be all-out action.
the Jor ls cicar to me unal nurses have support but one day not going to be nave colto de al-our with ine nurses. To me there has not sufficient above, from the TUC STEWART: The thing mulers are not zolne to oc oll worker.
There's a among nealth workers because the governical more pay than the others.
MICHELE: That way you are ezen other rather than the government. STEWART: I think the TUC asked e. 0 come the 23 June.
KIOW WILY to have been out again.
JOHN: I agreed with what Arthur Scargill had to say at the gala. He's in touch with the miners. He'll go round campaigning and talking to SWAR at Gormley did. posite of what Gormley The House of Lords is the best place for mim.
JOHN: scargill gets up and whether its controversial or He cuts through all the waffle. He was right when he said we weren' were striking against the Tebbit Bill because when that • doing would be illegal. The irvine to make il so that you Can't SnOW songarily other workers.
STEWART: The only thing I would add to Scargill is that miner striking.
I under out on strike it any worker is alica.
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TRADE WHO NEXT WHATRE CLINE! By R Reid, NUR guard A MASSIVE campaign to mobilise support for railworkers throughout the labour movement is the urgent order of the day. The excellent call for all-out strike action by the executive of the National Union of Railwaymen has been matched by the determination union, ASLEF, to fight British Rail Board to impose the flexible rosters jon 3 July.
railworkers.
at least a month.
of the drivers' the decision of the British Rail supported by the government, are preparing a major snowaown with lne Major BR customers have been walcu lo bcoare iu a lola sutuown ol Newspaper articles have mentioned a lour month strike. Local employment bureaus are advertising urgent vacancies ior heavv goods vehicle drivers to establish alternative transport. Power stations have been stockpiling coal for several weeks. The British Rail Board hopes that a prolonged strike will undermine the ability of the rail unions to stand in the way of halting sweeping productivity measures which will shed 40,000 jobs. these measures get through, the remaining workers in the maustry will worsening of job conditions and a tive wage freeze followed by a pay which doesn't even start to match inflation. Nothing ICOS than 12 strings will do cent without So we're in for a long fight, and we'll need every bit of support we can muster to win. The time has come to turn the Triple Alliance into reality. Steel workers are still facing massive job losses and the Tories are out to decimate the coal industry. The Dit closure proposed Snowdown in Kent is only the start. The health workers are battling on and the_ magnificent solidarity shown Shorkers from other sectors rank and file will count a great deal in any advances they make. Their struggle has shown the willingness of rank and file workers to extend active support. Triple Alliance could stop Joint action the vicious attacks on industrial workers and could bury Tebbit at the same time.
But none of this will be achieved unless there is full and active backing from rank and file railworkers themselves. Many in the industry are fully aware of the deadly implications of the Board's proposals. Most NUR members are sceptical that the strike will go ahead. Sidney Weighell has rung too many false alarms in the past and then has con ceded vital principles to the Board without a fight.
Railworkers are quite capable of mounting strong, united fightback. But that will be undermined unless the leadership breaks from its sorry record and becomes responsive to the deep-telt sentiment of the membership to mainlaln and li prove our conditions and to save our jobs.
The mắin lasn the membership will rest on the local strike committees. In the Kings Cross area, a Joint strike committee has already beer SCU volving several depots to co-ordinate the ments of pickets to trouble spots, as well as to discuss possible secondary targets.
One strike bulletin has already been put out by the committee, and a second is due this week. Mass meetings are being plann ed in every depot before 28 June. Once the action SLalls. weekly Illass meetings, following a prearranged mass picket, will be held on the day that strike pay is paid out If this kind of lead is followed and every worker in the industry whether they be guards, drivers, workshop engineers or platform staff sees that we're in this and stand or fall together, then we'll not only win our own struggle, but we'll inspire others to follow our example.
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