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Get your Socialist Press delivered each week by pos Six months (25 issues). . £10.00 One year (50 issues) .. £18.00 Two anti-cuts protestors have been arrested in Brighton and charged for painting a zebra crossing, as part of a struggle against the axeing of a "lollipop" children's crossing attendant.

Local supporters of the "Moulsecoomb Mothers Campaign" addressed the following appeal to Socialist Press seeking help in their struggle, which is clearly typical of hundreds of similar limited battles against the cuts springing up throughout the country.

"Why can't we keep our lollipop lady?

Why do we want to keep her?-Well we care about our kids; we don't want them killed as they cross the road to school. We don't think government cuts should put kids' lives in danger.

We have been forced into fighting for our lollipop patrol. At the Council meeting in Lewes on 12 November, they told us that they had lost our Six issues Three months (12 issues)..

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REST OF THE WORLD petition with 800 names on it. They also managed to lose two letters from the Mayor, Denis Hobden, supporting us.

East Sussex County Council is quite happy to spend over £500 on burning off the zebra crossings that have appeared.

Yet they don't want to spend £14.70 a week on a lollipop lady's wages.

We aren't fighting alone the Trades Council supported us and voted to spend their week of action against the government cuts with us at the crossing. Several councillors support us, as well as the Mayor, and the Gazette gives us good write-ups.

The more people that show their support the better. The more that help, the quicker we can get our lollipop ladies back again."

Morę information from, and dónations to help pay the fines to: Moulsecoomb Mothers Campaign, 98 Waldergrave Rd., Brighton, East Sussex BN1 6GG.

SUBSCRIPTK warehouses pressure is put on them to isolate Chix employer Rose and leave him more vulnerable to the strike.

The dispute has attracted support from many different quarters, including, as your article states, from the strikers' families as well as local trade unionists from Slough, Fords at Langley : and local authorities in West London.

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This support could be broadened even further by a campaign for a delegate conference to be called which could thrash out policies to win the strike and coordinate action to put them into practice.

Such a conference would provide an opportunity to discuss policies like 24-hour picketing (which seems to me to be impractical and how to extend the blacking and use of flying pickets.

The response of GMWU official McMullan to your interviewer would indicate that he is not likely to support such an inițiative.

£2.00 £4.00 £8.00 £14.00 £9.00 £16.00 from the Tories it is imperative that we fight for that most basic of rights-union membership.

Yours fraternally, Gerry Hawkins PS. Bro. Anwar may well wear smart shoes but this does not prevent him playing a very active role in the strike. He was sacked from his job in High Duty (just down the road from Chix) because of his anti-fascist stand and we suspect mainly because of his union activities as branch secretary of the, GMWU branch covering both factories.

More information from, end messages and donations to: M. Anwar, 271, Goodman Park, Slough.

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