St Mary's sets day of action for Oct 3

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YOP youth rally A DAY of action in support of the occupied St Mary's Hospital, London W9, has been set for October 3.

After assembling at 11am outside the hospital, workers, local people and other supporters of the fight to keep St Mary's open will have a march. In the afternoon, Health Minister Gerard Vaughan has been challenged to come to the hospital to debate the closure.

Delegations A special appeal is made for delegations Mick IN NEWCASTLE on August 28, a rally against the slave labour Youth Opportunities Programme brought together hundreds of youth willing to take up a fight against the Manpower Services Commission and the Tory government to increase the present rate of £23.50 to full trade union rates.

Presently 18 year old youth are earning 10p a day more than the dole after paying travelling expenses.

The rally was given the backing of NUPE, who are calling on youth on the schemes to join the union in order to be in a position to and tenants' associations.

Meanwhile the Occupation Committee is going ahead with other plans to strengthen the occupation. A meeting with doctors is planned for September 21, to win their support for the occupation and make sure they keep referring patients to Št Mary's W9.

And NUPE is doing a fight.

The rally was the first significant step in organising the YOP workers, a task that will prove very difficult and is the responsibility of all trade unionists. It is also in the interests of trade unionists whose jobs are being taken by YOP workers.

Employers do not have to pay YOP workers - they actually receive an allowance for taking them on.

But all this goes on without a word from most TUC leaders - except calls on employers to take on young workers!

Slight pressure was put on the TUC bureaucracy with a motion by the TGWU for the TUC to approve "There can be no guarsurvey among nurses to ask them if they think that there: are enough nurses in the hospital.

Support is needed on the regular 8am-8pm picket line - especially from delegations from trade union and Labour Party branches. Saturday afternoon is the best time.

Support Messages of support and money should be sent to:| John Dolan, c/o Cashier's Department, St Mary's Hospital, Harrow Rd, London W9 work experience schemes only in firms that have unions. According to the Sunday Times, this proposal if passed would have "crippled" YOPs.

The pressure however was shortlived, as the TUC has composited the resolution and the compromise now just calls for six month courses to have a bigger "training element' and for a greater drive against YOPs workers substituting for regular employees, greater hopefully than the present 'drive' , which involves Len Murray,_ Terry Duffy and Gormley begging employers to take on YOP youth and to get paid by the government for it.

"We will however leave