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A conference of NUPE stewards in London last week adopted a policy of taking industrial action if called to do so in defence of the threatened St. Columba's hospital.

The resolution, moved by . Arthur Steel from the Samaritan ; Hospital, did not.offer a complete policy for the struggle against the closure of St. Columba's, but pointed in the right direction-towards independent working class action to stop the cuts.

Meanwhile the still-threatened Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital-which has been saved from closure for the past three years only by a prolonged work-in backed by the threat of immediate strike action should it close-faces a new test on 20 | March.

Health Service axeman David Ennals is due on that date to i take the final decision about the hospital's future.

And all the signs are that, after limbering up with his strikebreaking speeches and anti-union statements throughout the public sector pay fight, Ennals is likely to decide to i close the EGA.

The Save the EGA campaign, aware of this danger, is calling on all organisations wishing to fight the cuts to support a public meeting on March 21, at the EGA, at 7.30 p.m.

March 28 will see a "lunchtime action" at the EGA, assembling at 12.00 midday and lasting until 2 p.m. Trade union delegations are particularly important.

And local union branches are urged to invite a Campaign speaker to their next meeting, to outline the savage programme of cuts scheduled or in progress in the Camden and Islington area.

Other health union branches must also declare or renew pledges to take all out strike action should Ennals attempt to close .the EGA, which has 'become a national focus for working class resistance to the cuts.

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