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We can't live on sympathy and Jeff Evans describes the Health Workers' Solidarity Campaign in Huddersfield IT STARTED with a resolution we put through our Labour Party ward - Honley Brockholes ward, Colne Valley CLP - at tbe beginning of June, to back the NHS workers and organise a support committee.

We went down to the picket line at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, with a minivan plastered with placards. Talking to the shop stewards, we found that the four main hospitals in Huddersfield were not coordinating action at all.

Delegates

So we suggested a public meeting on the evening of the next day of strike action, June 8. Ju-oda people came, mainly hospital shop stewards, and decided to back the Health Workers' Solidarity Campaign.

We set up a steering committee - two delegates from each hospital, two from the Labour Party, and seats open for all other unions that affiliated.

On June 19 we organised a march through Huddersfield - 350 strong. We've produced a bulletin for the hospitals - 'Staying Alive' - Which we distribute together with 'Health Workers for the Full Claim' , and a leaflet for general distribution. Through the Labour Party, we'll get the leaflet distributed to every letterbox in Huddersfield.

This coming week we're helping to bring out a smaller hospital that has never taken action before. We're leafletting the big factories, and hope to get delegations out at dinner time to join the health workers' picket lines. We've ant a mace mestina on Tree.

to demonstrate.

include more hospital lines. wards and hospitals.

The Government says would mean even more That's blackmail.

The offer:

Job Domestic assistant First year student Qualified ambulan •Staff nurse Clerk •Pressure We've pulled in HUMI THERE is no point trying to deny that the NHS pay campaign has been struck a heavy blow by the TUC's sabotage of the train drivers.

Battered and beleaguered the health workers' struggle is not however dead.

After the defeat on the railways, our job is not to mourn but to organise - to regain momentum, to band together rank and file militants in a network which can combat and displace the trade union leaders who cut down ASLEF.

The health workers' struggle is crucial now for that. The best protest against the TUC's axe-job on ASLEF, and the best way to show our anger against the Tory government, is a maxiwi mum turnout on the health workers' pickets and demonstrations.

After destroying the train drivers' eight-hour day, the Tories want to impose a 6%72% pay offer on the health workers. Compare that with the 13% paid to the police, the 14% to top civil servants, and the 19% to judges!

There are plenty of obstacles to this week's mobilisation. The health service unions have been The Tory government has issued warnings of disciplinary action against any civil service workers who strike in solidarity with the health workers.

Defiance

But the successful, persistent defiance of the Prior anti-union laws by workers taking solidarity action shows that such obstacles can be overcome. Despite