Ten Things to Do for Fightback Conference

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MARCH a code of practice for women (a charter to make local councils ensure fair employment for women); stand up and be counted campaigns (organise a local register of unemployed women to reveal the numbers who do not officially sign on); and so on.

If you want to know anything more about the Hackney Women's Right to Work Campaign, write to PO Box 42, 136 Kingsland High Street, London E:8. 1. Make copies of the draft covering letter (or your own wording) and send it out with leaflets to all available trade union addresses. Some you will have already, others can be ferreted out from phone books or local resource centres. Others can be sent to workplaces: e.g. 'NUT rep' sent to large schools, or 'Nalgo Office' to your Town Hall, 'Natfhe rep' to colleges, NUPE secretary or ASTMS secretary to all hospitals, etc. 2. Get the local trades council to support the con¡REAGANS CRUISEpla. TITAN its safer or lie The latest Women's Fightback - 10p plus postage from 41 ElIington St, London N7 anri hin ference and send out leatlets to all affiliated branches. 3. Put a resolution to your Labour Party GMC, to support the conference and include some leaflets in the next mailing to ward branches and affiliated unions with the suggestion to discuss sending a delegate.

Transport

4. Book transport NOW. If you can, put a motion through a college NUS or a particularly sympathetic union branch to subsidise it. Ask people for money towards cheap transport to the conference: you may even make a surplus that can cover other expenses. 5. Insert a duplicated slip in your papers saying where people can contact you about the conference. It'll draw attention to it and give encouragement o women it they know there's a group going down.

6. Stick up the handbills about the conference in every possible public place, eg: bookshops that display such things, cales, wholefood shops, ete.

Cwi lis. "55 z " " 7. Go through all labour movement and women's movement coming events for the next three months and make sure someone can take leaflets along. At meetings, get up and tell people about it. Please try and think ahead rather than phoning up for Red Star parcels of leaflets the day before a big event. 8. Hold a Women's Fightback meeting a few weeks before for preliminary discussion. And set up in advance a meeting for shortly after the conference so you have something to bring women to and discuss what a local group can do to further the initiatives that come out of the conference. 9. Make a list of active trade unionists in the area, talk to them about the conference and get them involved in some of the above. 10. In a union women's committee or broad left, try to get the conference sponsored and actively supported. Nor the first lightback conference, one comrade got the (PSA london Broad Left to distribute lestlet• and organis a delegatin i ten prophl. the conference. national level.

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