Lobby against Cuts

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DEFEND HOUNSLOW HOSPITAL. A delegate conference has been called by the Occupation Committee in he held at LSE on November 5. Enquiries to Carl Brecker at the hospital.

70 trade unionists from various hospitals came together last week to lobby a meeting of the Area Health Authority against savage cuts proposed locally in the Health Service.

The lobby, called by COHSE, was supported by workers in NUPE, ASTMS and UCATT-some in all of these unions answering a call to strike work for the period.

Representatives were hastily invited in by the AHA chairman, Labour Peer Lady McCarthy, who explained that NHS standards were all a "comparative' matter and anyway, none of the plans to cut back over £2 million was finalised-yet!

These workers now face the need to take further action to defend the Health Service and their jobs. The national leaders of the public sector unions have called for week of action from November 21-action which is to be limited nationally to a lobby of Parliament by alloted delegates, not to Last year an unlimited demonstration and lobby of Parliament pulled 80,000.

These compromising union leaders must be exposed or pressured into fighting by a campaign to open and examine the accounts of Health Authorities and supply companies to reveal the rake-offs and misuse of PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report. Health resources.

This campaign must be accompanied and fought for by the mobilisation. of workers through strike action and the occupation and administration by workers of hospitals planned for closure.

In that way the fight can begin for our control of our Health Service. which has been accepted by their tame scab union, the IOJ.

The IOJ issued a statement that i any • *other group' won more than 10% they would expect the same.

The struggle for a decent shop dispute at Darlington.

An all out strike over pay must go forward hand in hand with all out strikes to win at Darlington.

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