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A delegation of union leaders, hospital workers and doctors from the EGA heard Health Minister David Ennals last week express his determination to close down the hospital, which has been resisting closure since 1975.

Over recent weeks the determination of the Labour leaders to push through the cash limits in the health service has been A good initial response to our appeal for cash to help those fined on the Garners picket line has brought in £149.95. But WSL merribers who have been at the forefront of this struggle have been fined large sums-one a total of £200 -and so more cash is urgently needed. Donations should be sent to Garners Fines Appeal, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR.

AT THE shown not simply in their efforts to keep down the wages of health workers, but also in new rounds of cuts.

One recent victim of this is St. Columba's at Hampstead Heath, where a fight continues against the latest planned cuts in North London.

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• On 14 March St. Pancras North Labour MP Jock Stallard initiated a Parliamentary debate on the EGA only to hear junior health minister Rowland Moyle express a determination to go ahead with the EGA closure.

The delegation the following week heard the usual stalling from Ennals in relation to the famous working party' he set up last year to discuss 'other sites' for the EGA.

This proposal is of course rejected by the Unions, and also by the doctors.

Broken lift Ennals tried to cloud the issue further by talking of providing private finance for the hospital's broken down lif proposal completely opposer I by the unions and against all the principles of the NHS.

COMRADES! THE PRODUCTIVITY DEAL DEATHS AND INTURIES IN THE PIIS. IT'S ÄLWAYS THE SAME_ KICK A BLOKE WHEN HE'S DOWN. AND ROY'S DOING SUCH A TOUGH JOB!. PHOTO: Chris Davles, Report Ennals He also came up with an even more bizarre proposal that the EGA might in some way be combined with the Royal Homeopathic Hospital in Queens Square-another smail hospital now threatened with closure.

The danger of in any way compromising with the authorities by discussing 'moves' and 'alternatives' came out very clearly from this. The unions will need to sustain their independent occupation and win cooperation from other hospital workers, including strike action, to keep their campaign going.

The planned lunch-time demonstration on 28 March will be a step in this direction.

BACK AT THE OFFICE.!

DO YOU THINK I LAD IT ON STRONG| ENOUGH TO GET ELECTED?— OH MY GOD NOT ANOTHER PATIENCE OF A SAINT— BUT THEN I AM RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT! convenors at Dunlop's Speke factory remain determined to give no lead whatever to the fight against the massacre of jobs on Merseyside.

Last week saw yet another demoralising mass moating at the plant in which the contral question of a policy of occupying the plant was consciously evaded, Two weeks TGWU General Executive Council chairman Stan Pemberton spoke optimistically about a Finance and General Purposes Committee meeting which he hopes, in two woeks time, will discuss the Speke closure.

Workers in the meeting were more concerned with reports that the convenors at the Fort Dunlop plant had allowed orders from Fords to ba diverted there instead of Speke -thus blacklegging on the struggle even before it gets seriously underway.

No concessions And last week's talks with management revealed no concessions whatever.

For Speke workers, the chips are down. They must defy their convenors and vote at once to occupy the plant, demanding all out support from the unions involved in Dunlop and the motor industry.

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SOCIALIST PuESS An on-the-spot report by Socialist MA MUSIONC correspondent Henry Phillips.

Crowds run from CRS tear gas attack The LCR-French section of the "United" Secretariat of the Fourth International, was like Lutte Ouvriere, present on the demonstration in some force.

Its weekly funtil recently daily) newspaper Rouge offered some criticism of both the CGT for limiting the action and, the CFDT for boycotting it.

Rouge was however unable to divine the overall diversionary and counter-revolutionary strategy behind the line of both bureaucracies.

demands Nonetheless their leaflet for the demonstration did make a series of relevant demands scorns civil ¡ervic claim Even in what seems certain to be its dying last

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