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could afford the straws, we could draw le £13.50 we've had this week. Two Ste ars send £1.50 when they paid for their and Sheffield sent £12 with theirs. Score Send donations to Socialist Organiser, 28 Middle Lane, THE WEST Midlands regional day of action for the NH$ pay campaign was the strongest for non-NHS support.

There were : one-day strikes at Massey Ferguson Coventry, and by 3000 If only n share out SO suppo this week far:

Sheffield Stoke Durham Leeds Merseyside Cardiff Hull Edinburgh. London Winsford Misc:

Send donai London N° construction workers at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. Half-day strikes took place at Longbridge, Rover Solihull, Rover Tyseley, BL Castle Bromwich, and Triplex.

Other trade unionists and Labour Party members joined health workers on picket lines at most major hospitals, and non-emergency cases were turned away.

in addition, 1000 school caretakers and cleaners in Birmingham struck on the same day in order to link their fight against the Tory council's plan to privatise their work with the health service struggle. The biggest school in Birmingham, Washward Heath comprehACTION by health workers in support of their pay claim escalater last week in Manchester. At the Eye Hospital NUPE workers in the theatre sterile supplies unit and CoHSE theatre porters came out on strike.

The action was taken in response to a management refusal to honour an agreement (made after strike action in August) that only accident and emergency cases would be dealt with.

The management attempted to use non-union staff, 149.50 150% 35.00- 117% 110.00 i 10% 93.00 93% 174.70 55% 45.00 45% 25.00 42% 70.00 22% 304.00 14% 794.51 7s to PL:

ensive, was closed, as were at least 20 other schools.

There were rallies in most large towns: At the 5000 strong Birmingham rally, Len Murray was vigorously heckled by rank and file health workers demanding all-out action. Murray was visibly shaken, and attempted to bamboozle the audience by claiming that all-out action would mean 'leaving cancer patients to die.

Peggy Gilbert, - NUPE branch secretary at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, • won a standing ovation for a militant speech calling for all-out action and a general strike against the Tory government. but this was immediately answered by i walk-out of porters not only in the Eye Hospital but also in the nearby Manchester Royal Infirmary and St Mary's Hospital. Over 80% of the porters came out on strike at the three hospitals.

The theatre sterile supplies unit and the theatre porters are now on indefinite strike, in an attempt, to force the management to stick to the 'accidents and 'emergencies only' agreement.

TONY DALE lots to ickpor: paper: 's So Coventry 592.55 141%" Nottingham 114.00 114% Birmingham 489.77 98%, Oxford 431.50 85% Manchester 183.00 47% . Basingstoke 45.00 45% Glasgow 44.40 37% Leicester 86.00 22% Bradford Northampton O TOTAL 3905.72 65%