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With only £10.50 towards our £2,000 special fund arriving in the last seven days, this has been the worst week so far. We need to raise £100 a week to keep on target for this fund so there is no room for complacency. We urge all readers and supporters to go all out during the 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR WHO IS NHC March in defence of Aubrey, Berry and Campbell, Rally platform: Ann Marie Sweeney, "Ted Eames coming week to change this position.

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WSL Sepcial Fund WSL Sepcial Dartmouth Park Hill, hour of dinner ladies' hours".

Nationally, despite the banner at the national conference saying NUPE Fights the Cuts, the union had not conducted a single fight on any cut in the country.

CLASH Colin Kenny, secretary of CLASH, the London health service stewards organisation, outlined some of the drastic cuts taking place in London hospitals.

The attempt to set up CLASH had been opposed by trade union officials to the point where they had threatened their union membership.

At the EGA clear commitment to strike action in other hospitals was required.

Yet the work-in had allowed 'security men' to come and survey the hospital. The date for closure was still officially July 21.

"The implication of this is to build for strike action which is not a protest but which mobilises the independent strength of the working class"

Unprecedented

The speaker from the Hounslow Hospital, Pat McCarthy said that the health authority raid on the hospital last October had been an unprecedented piece of history in the health service:

"It has to be an example to the labour movement of LEONARO HOOPER - MILITARY WHAT IS INTELLEEN:

HIS JOB IS A LONTRAN IN TERMS charges under the Official Secrets Act how far the authorities prepared to go"

The conference, in a series of group discussions, drew out the lessons of occupation and of the open the books demand.

It closed with a clear restatement of the principles and policies of the campaign, with an overwhelming vote for. the tabled resolution.

"1. This Action Against the Cuts Rally endorses the policies of the Oxford City Nursery Campaign of: a) occupation of social services threatened with closure, b) recognition of the vital importance of strike action by the trade unions involved to defend the social services, and c) striving to set up bodies of trade unionists and other consumers of the social services-parents, patients, ete-to investigate the spending and profits in the public sector, and specifically the demand for the reopening of the South Oxford Nursery Class, fully financed by Oxfordshire County Council with all the jobs refilled. Delegates at the rally resolve to take this back to their branches, trades councils, etc.

2. This Action Against the Cuts Rally resolves to give full support to similar campaigns in defence of social services, and where such struggles arise in Oxford the Oxford City Nursery Campaign will seek to coordinate the campaigns" OAKLEY 8 00 TODAY