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Coventry calls conterence for councillors Workers at the Chix sweet factory continue their struce for union recognition. Information from and messages of support and donations to: M. Anwar, 271 Goodman Park, strike The strike by AUEW and TGWU members at London's Charing Cross Hospital has entered its fifth week. It remains solid despite a stepping up of the press and TV witch-hunt.

The strike is over the dismissal of two mechanical engineers who refused to. carry out work normally done by unskilled labourers as part of a work to rule in protest at dangerously low manning levels and general cuts in service.

Support for the strike both inside and out of the hospital continues to grow.

On December 8 Coventry council will be hosting a conference of Labour Councils called to "organise a national campaign against the Tory cuts"

. As we have seen with the Temporary Tenants in Coventry (see centre pages) the salle peupir who caucu enma nannla mrha nallad thin LUIS conference have reached such depths of degeneration that Last Tuesday two civil servants, one CPSA and one SCPS member in Kennington DHSS office, London were suspended for blacking the work of casual staff, part of the CPSA action against the civil service cuts.

Thousands of civil servants throughout the country immediately walked out in protest at when faced with a court decision against them under Section 99 of the Public Health Act their gut response is to appeal to the courts against that decision.

If this is not enough to put their supposed anti-Toryism in absolutely clear terms then the decisions they took in September to implement cuts vrutrtu Dy ine tast LaDOur adorad hir tha Talamara government should make their real position clear.

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5,000 walked out in London, and 20,000 in the rest of the country.

Strikes and walkouts continued throughout the week as nine more CPSA members were suspended on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.

Many government offices in Scotland were closed by massive walkouts in response to the suspension of 200 civil servants Among other cuts they voted £2 million off this year's education budget.

The purpose of the conference on December 8 is to organise a strong campaign of complaints to the Tories.

Coventry councillors have called this conference to avoid a real struggle on the cuts.

The Labour councillors have made it clear that they are not prepared to go it alone against the Tories. Vation ters at were work at the #l Savings headquar Glasgow.

They suspended for blacking done on overtime.

This week further suspensions are threatened at Kennington DHSS and at Glasgow National Savings Bank headquarters.

The Tory government want a major confrontation with the CPSA and SCPS now in order to The task of those who want to fight the cuts is to mobilise those who the cuts will affectthe trade unions, community groups, tenants associations-to fight the cuts being made by the council now.

This means demanding that the Labour council refuses to implement the Tory cuts, refuses to raise rates or rents and thus challenges the Tories head on.

Coventry Trades Council is calling a mass demonstration and lobby of the December 8 conference. LEYLAND break their strength and so ensure that there is no resistance to the next round of civil service cuts-to be announced at the end of the month.

Instead of putting up a fight, the CPSA Broad Left leadership are sticking to their limited work to rule consisting of an overtime ban, a ban on temporary promotion and substitution, a policy of one person, one job, employer.

Eduvardes' move relies heavily on the stage-managed 7majority for his plan achieved in the recent managa. ment ballot: and BL will now cash in on the anti-communist hysteria whipped up by the "Fourth Man' spy case.

As wo go to press it is that preparations are in hand for a major witch-hunt in which Robinson, a loading CP member, will be pitloried in the press as a "Marxist"

In reslity Socialist Press has frequently been forced to combat his politics of collaboration with the imposition of "workers' participation" and corporate bargaining in BL.

But in Robinson's victimise. tian a basic issue of trade union and a ban on casual staff.

They are also restricting action against suspensions to protest walkouts and one day strikes.

CPSA and SCPS members must demand that their leadership immediately organise all out indefinite strike action to stop the cuts and defend the unions' victimised members.

rom front rights is involved.

The whole Longbridge work. forco showed they understood this-and immediately walked out as soon as the sacking was announced.

BL workers elsewhere, smarting at the pay "offer" are ready to take action, if given a lead.

Demands must be made for full support from the AUEW Executive. Their recommanda. tion for a 'yes' vote in the baltot is being quotad by BL as justification for sacking Robinson, whom managament accuse of seking to disrupt Edwardos so-called "survival plan"

And TGWU members throughout BL-whose official union policy remains in opposition to the 13 closures and essontially identical to the line of the Combine Committee booklet-must also be given an official call to take action.

Only an all-out strike in defence of Robinson throughout BL can repel this fundamental challange to trade union rights and lay the basis for the defance of jobs and working conditions in the coming period.

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