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FIGHT ITS THE C SP SAVE SA.UPE SAYS: replace essential equipment, the question of who makes the decisions is a primary one.
Yet the pamphlet consistently refuses to meet the question of workers control head on. Its attitude is that control is sometimes forced upon the work-in, but as little as possible should be done to antagonise management.
THE CUTS CUTS SAVE NTS JOBS THE CUTS VE NE BS Development Perhaps it is a measure ot the political development which had taken place at the EGA that such left phraseology was needed to win the confidence of the stewards and workers who only weeks earlier had been totally unorganised.
Now, as soon as a mass meeting had voted to workin, the iull-timers were able to take the reins. ASTMS official Dowling now spoke for the first time of a one week oc upation.
Limited
Within 30 minutes of the vote, he and Taylor had assured the hospital management that it was not the intention of the unions to usurp their functions, and control of the hospital by the workers was to be limited to control of a room for pickets at the main entrance.
Far from a hospital council representing all staff, it was many weeks before a further mass meeting was called.
Within days, the only evidence of "workers' control" was a notice pinned to the railings "EGA: Hospital Under Workers Control" Soon even this was removed under instructions from management.
Sporadic
Taylor's attendance at the hospital became sporadic as the threat vanished, and he shortly stopped visiting his members altogether.
The lesson here, as at the Hounslow, (where, even arter management had led an attack on the hospital, kidnapping the patients, both the full time officials and Stalinist leader the S s ot outl. East Regin the of UC "efuse I to call str _onsistent fight tnese careerists No doubt the writers of this work-in manual would argue that it is meant as a practical guide, and not to provide ideological leadership.
The truth, however, is that it represents the authors' own confusion and, worse, a conscious attempt by some of just not interested.
So 1 say you're just wasting your time. You've got to take the action we're taking"
The work-ins are a rict source of experience. It is : pity that this pamphlet fail: to draw out the right lessons.
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