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and demanding that Camden Labour the, Council pay up-both passed election. "' .
She knows whole sections Labour Party is to call for an are on strike who've not been emergency conference to draw It shows how completely out next election on which • the of step she is, and the nonsense Government must be mandated. of the old argument about the MP's whether 'left" or right who importance of uniting the won't comply should be thrown How did you take up the fight on the NUPE claim?
I put a resolution through my branch calling urgently for a Council of Action to coordinate strike action for the claim and Council, local Labour Parties and NUPE.
Then I put another challenging Camden Council to meet the claim 'even if it evokes defiance of the present . Labour The first was passed unopposed, the second unanimousiy. The GMC was already committed to support for the £60/35 hour claim.
But the next GMC was the AGM and the whole time was taken up with elections and the Parliamentary Report. There we were with the most burning issue of the day in Camden if not in the whole country, with the whole of Camden manual workers out on strike against a Labour-controlled council and we weren't even able to have a report from the councillors or discuss the,two motions on the agenda.
What did MP Lena Jeger have to say?' She spoke on the concordat. She said if the Labour Party didn't build on it the party would split -and the Tories would come to power. The concordat was the only chance, she said.
She said she lives in the con stituency and what she hear from ordinary people at the bus stop is that they are going to vote Tory, because they're "fed Strikers de up with stri parents dyi buried, their monstrate on 22 Janu Sandra Plummer, and St. Pancras Labour Party tells kes," and with thei ing and not bein! r children not goin!
a member of Holborn South Constituency Socialist Press how she claim in to school.
She went on about the latest Gallup Poll 'proving' that most workers want secret ballots..
But she nad • ine. agenaa calling for a Council of Action with only one vote against.
out for years.
"win the The next step - inside the up a socialist manifesto for the Pickets on the out-along with cabinet.
The direction that the Camden Strike Committee has taken of putting demands on counciliors to give in to the claim is crucial. They must go further and demand active support of MP's to kick out Callaghan.Cressy Road refuse depot
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saying it should include delegates from the Trades
NUPE says: insus the-
fought for support for the NUPE her local Labour Party branch.
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