Fulham cuts: work-in continues
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The occupation at Fulham Baths is continuing against local plans to close it down.
The "Save our Baths Campaign" (SOB), "comprising baths workers (members of the GMWU), local trade unionists, residents and supporters, is keeping a 24-hour rota to insure that the baths stay open. Daytime swimming and washing are continuing as usual.
The excuse for the closure, wheeled out by the Tory-controlled Hammersmith Council is that the Baths are "unsafe" . This. is largely based on a report by Council-appointed architects.
This is simply a ploy to divert trom the real reason for the attempt to close the Baths, which is part of the overall strategy of the Thatcher crew to make the working class pay for capitalism's heightening bankruptcy.
The Save our Baths Campaign must not turn the occupation struggle outwards by building supporting action amongst unions of both the public and private sectors.
Police harassment has so far resulted in the arrest of one of the leaders of the occupation as he left the Baths last Friday.
Readers are urged to take the opportunity of a free swim there as often as possible, and better still, to join the daily, rota of the occupation. Especially, skilled assistance is required in maintaining the heating system.
Union branches
Support for the occupation must be won in all trade union branches, particularly in the GMWU for national endorsement (because most of the baths workers are members of this union) Trade unionists must not accept the Council's -figures and demand the opening of their finance books to an elected trade union committee.
Rush messages of support, donations and teams of pickets to Fulham Baths, North End Rd., London, SW6.
INS A SMALL BUT VOCAL lobby by Robb Caledon shipyard workers brought the reality of the class struggle to the Labour Party conference last Thursday. Robb Caledon, in Dundee is now the only yard holding firm on sanctions designed to prevent British Shipbuilders carrying through their planned programme of closures. These involve closing and 'mothballing' the Caledon yard, at the arnonso nt 1 1AM inhe The Conference, as it showed on the issue
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