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appear to include starting the march in Glasgow early in May. THREE per cent is the measly offer to municipal busworkers, already working long hours on atrocious basic wages [£65 take-home, for example, for drivers and conductors, for a five-day week of extremely unsociable shifts).

This offer was overwhelmingly rejected at a national meeting of TGWU THE STRIKE at Stanford's Map Shop in London over 10 sackings and union recognition is now over.

At a meeting al ACAS on Monday January 24, the shop's owners refused to budge on reinstatement and would only offer "compensation' of $500.

The strikers' union, ACTSS, advised them to accept this offer, and at a meeting last week they agreed to do so.

All ten hope to maintain their membership of the London booksellers' branch of ACTSS, set up as a result of the strike, and are considering ways of using their compensation money collectively.

Will Adams Wh THERE ARE Socialist Organiser groups in most major towns and cities. See below for details of your area -tails, or if there is no group listed for your area, fill in and return the 'Get Organ.

ised' form.

• SCOTLAND Glasgow. For details of meetings contact paper sellers or Stan Crooke, 1:14 Dixon Avenue, Glasgow G42. SO is sold at Maryhill dole (Tuesday mornings)

and Rutherglen shopping arcade (Friday lunchtime). passenger services delegates, representing about 70 municipal concerns, last Tuesday February 1.

One-day The meeting resolved to call a one-day strike on Wednesday February 16. Delegates were not informed, however, that further negotiations are planned for Friday 11th.

Given the lack of democracy in the union - some delegates not elected, no provision for wage offers to be voted on by the rank and file, etc. etc. - it is clear that the union bureaucrats are hoping to stitch up a deal and avoid a fight.

The original, not so outrageous, claim for 54% to return us to 1975 living. standards has already been melted down to 13% in the form of an 8% rise (to match inflation) ón the basic wage and 5% in the form of an extra day's holiday per year.

Activists in the industry should argue that only an all-out strike from FebTuary 16 can win the full claim; that busworkers cannot afford anything less; that all wage offers should be voted on by the full membership; and that we should immediately link up with the water workers in their struggle for a living wage.

Phil Hardy, shop steward, Leicester City Transport CRUISE CONE LAGN VOT BOMBS JOHN HAMRIS

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