What to do for May 24 strike
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• Find out from your Regional Contact what has already been planned, offer your services and suggestions. Phone Brighton (Carmel or Raise support for the day of strike action in your union, workplace, estate, shopping centre, school college, nursery, just anywhere you go. •If your local council has a nuclear free zone policy, and many do, demand that the council gives over office space for orgnising for the 24th. Sheffield and Leicester City Councils have already done so. •Plan action for the day itself - we can do ANYTHING, occupy, encircle; decorate, die-in, blockade at military bases, banks, armaments factories 'and supporting industries, nuclear bunkers, Ministry of De• Leaflet everywhere, so there can be no excuse for not knowing what's happening on May 24. If you don't have local leaflets, they can be ob. tained nationally from the London Greenham office. •Demand the support of men. Ask them to take supportive strike action as well, and to help organise creches so children can be looked after and the women are free to take the main action on the day. •Pressure to get unions to support May 24 must now be generated in local branches. Trades Councils can arrange for every delegate to take support for May 24 into their branches and arrange for speakers •Help set up local organising meetings, including women's centres, women's groups, minority ethnic women's groups, trade union wo•Labour Party Women's sections can take up the call and show that there are Labour Party rank and file members who are determined to commit the Labour Party to campaign on conference resolutions.
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Laughing all the way to the bank - BL boss Musgrove IN an earlier and simpler age, surrender was announced simply by sending out someone with a white flag.
In our sophisticated modern society, it's a much more elabor. ate process. The Sunday Telegraph on April 24 reported on the talks between top union leaders and BL management at the • They were lubricated with steaks all round, wine, unlimited coffee, sandwiches, and a large breakfast. By the time the union leaders were whisked away in chauffeur-driven Rovers, a bill of But the hotel's efforts were not wasted. The rigours of class "Although three rooms had been booked for the talks apparently the different groups drifted between them rather than talking in entrenched little parties. One member of staff said she had difficulty distinguishing who were the bosses and who were the union men ... all the suits looked the same. Holiday Inn, Heathrow.
over £500 had been run up:
struggle were softened:
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