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To fishall YOUR MAN AT THE TOP 7 AI In the wake of the TUC sell-out of the firemen's pay strike the emphasis has shifted to the fight to defend and improve manning levels.

In London and elsewhere employers have done nothing to increase manning preparatory for the scheduled introduction of 42-hour week working in November.

Indeed most forces are undermanned even for the existing 48-hour week.

Growing awareness that a fight is looming on this issue brought 1,000 firemen from brigades all over Britain to demonstrate through the streets of Lincoln last ...SO I'M SURE MY HONOURABLE FRIENDS WILL AGREE -IT$ ABOUT TIME TRAT TRADE UNION LEADERS TOOK A TOUGH LINE WITH THEIR MEMBERS. SACK EM I SAY!

HEAR Friday in support of the fight there against fire authority plans to cut the county brigade by 30%.

It is obvious that strike action both in Lincolnshire and nationally could well be necessary if the bosses' offensive on manning levels is to be defeated and the 42-hour week secured.

As preparation for this fight firemen must struggle for the removal of those union leaders that allowed the TUC to isolate and defeat the pay strike last winter, and who are now clearly ready to concede cuts in service and manning levels sooner than confront the employers.

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UNION LEADERS ARE

BEING CALLED ON ALL SNES TO DISCIPLINE THEIR MEMBERS • HEY JOE...

I'VE JUST HAD ....iacoa FUND We're on target this week with £101.40 arriving over the last seven days, bringing our total so far to £950.67 towards our £2,000 special fund.

£100 a week is the minimum we need coming in each week if we are to reach our target on time by the end of July.

By next week we need to go well over the first f1,000.

So don't delay! Send your contribution to:

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SOCIALIST SOCIALIST # Har PRESS DEFEND PRUN ERSE LINE RITY COLE HEPTAL Indefinite strike action-extended onto a national basis-is now essential if the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital is to be saved from closure: at the hands of the Lib-Lab This is the message spelled out in resolutions adopted last week by EGA stewards, and by health stewards of the South Camden Joint Shop Stewards Committee. A WE DEMAND The most flagrant attack on union members by their own union leaders that Fleet Street has ever seen is being carried out this week.

The Observer's threat to close is, in the context of increasing circulation, lower wage costs and rising profit, ludicrous.

But Wade and 29 out of the