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WHEN THE TAPS RUN DRY BLAME THE TORIES!

· Socialist Challenge No. 279, 2 February 1983 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 450 words

The scan: sc-no279.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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FOR THE FULL CLAIM! NO TROOPS!

THE WATER WORKERS!

Give back the Demonstrate Council.

March to bankment 'NALGO, NUPE, UCATT, Association.

THE GOVERNMENT is preparing a massive campaign the Already the Tory papers are pouring out stories of waterworkers cutting off supplies to hospitals and kidney machines. In fact, the water workers have gone out of their way to among the old and sick.

But the there will be hardship; water to and industry gradually disrupted. the Tories will be to blame - they are standing in the way of a settlement. When the taps start to dry up, when workers are laid off in other industries without Wale! blame the WOKerS But all the water workers are asking is a living wage. Their basic pay is around t85 a week - if they earn more on average its because massive amounts of overtime. And they earn this paltry wage fo doing what are nastiest jobs on with everyone else's muck.

Bermondsey Labour underground). for Downing Street, Rally at Victoria Gardens, Em- Tory Peckham Labour Parties, Southwark GEMWU, T&GWU Southwark Group Tenants' abuse waterworkers Whole in policy.

prevent hardship fighting against. strike continues labour will be For all this now workers; hospital and homes are Tories will tions 'heartless' water URORISTS give Thatcher some of the offer, dealing Help Peter Canvassers are now needed every day of the week, but especially Sundays 11.00am and Tuesdays 7.00pm. Each CLP is to be twinned with a Bermondsey ward; contact Labour Party regional office (703 6511) to find out YOU CHO DOE Or 111?

Party offices, 133 Lower Road, SE16 (Rotherhithe environment minister Tom King. He's taken over Michael Heseltine's old iob of robbing local councils.

Margaret Thatcher has told the employers not to pay any more than the 7.3 per cent offer already made. The Tories are worried that the water workers are knocking a their public sector pay Good. This pay policy precisely what other groups like the hospital workers have been The whole resources of the the Labour Party as well as the unions, must swing Ine water the defeat of the workers must not be repeated. In particular the labour movement must prepare for the use of troops to run key installa.

But troops can't do even simple jobs in the water industry if they receive no supplies: trade must black all material destined for the water industry.

The water workers strike can the bloody nose which she so thoroughly deserves with the support of the whole labour movement

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