Europe's Youth Scrap the Weapons! Christine Cadia

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That sort of trade union ainst the Bomb - by discontribute to the US- involvement must be devel- arming and overthrowing Hoped to win the fight ag-. the capitalist warmongers.

vers must MICHAEL Foot was greet- NIAUADT Dand ed : enthusiastically, but there was bigger applause for trade union militant Mike Cooley, who rightly denounced Labour's pro-NATO official defence spokesperson, Brynmor John.

The Labour Party conference was overwhelmingly for unilateral disarmament, but still our shadow cabinet representatives campaign against this line.

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Few issues bring home so clearly the need to fight for accountability in the Labour Party and trade Over a quarter of a million people marched through London on October 24 to demand that Britain junk its nuclear weapons. As in the late '50s, CND has managed to mobilise many thousands of people new to politics.

The London march was paralleled by several giant marches elsewhere in Europe. About a quarter of a million marched in Rome, the principal target of their protest, being the US bases in Italy.

In Brussels 200,000 took to the streets. It was Belgium's biggest demonstration ever, with four per cent of the country's population participating. In Paris 50,000 demonstrated, and there were several smaller marches in the suburbs.

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In Bonn a forunight ago, the biggest demonstration in West Germany since World War 2 mobilised 300,000, protesting primarily against Cruise and Pershing II missiles.

The reverberations of that massive protest were clearty felt ai the meeting a meet later of NATO defence ministers. The morTy they expressed ai the rising anti-nuclear somersert complesely disproves the claims of ibe asies ibes "'All chis marcting does so good'.

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Hoo McLeish DESPITE shop stewards' attempts to prevent one factory being played off against the other, that is exactly what Hoover management have achieved with the announcement of the Perivale closure.

The Cambuslang work. force nor seem to be suffering from an ettack of vision. Eddie MeAroy. conTeDor of the Cambasteng factor, said. "Carabastang workers Dow feel there is light as the end of che cannel. thar chere is balere for the Support wadr i 3s. Kirk Perrin

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out on the streets already.

•'They have to be seen to be leading the fightback. There is no doubt that the union would endorse that. Exactly how we will fight the closure and redundancies will be decided at a union delegate conference in London on 2nd November.

The only decision that can be taken at that meeting is for the Perivale workers to occupy their factory and for the other two factories so strike in their suppoct Is rill sol be the noes sil tsairse bar it

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GENDEL If, as Cambuslang workers believe, Hoover want to move the bulk of their work to factories abroad due to cheaper labour, then how soon will it be before they go the whole way and pull out of Britain altogether?

This is already seen as a possiblity by the stewards. But their answer is to close Hoover factories abroad and increase the dole queues there.

A short time ago Eddie McAvoy said be 8aW "the need for some sort of international shop stewards organisation '. Surely thai's boss to organise the fightback Dow!

1065 DEFEATED by the ambulance drivers' action in their plans to close down Casualty, management at St Mary's Hospital, London W9, are using dirty tricks to try to empty Wards 2, 3 Large sections of the hospital are scheduled for closure, and these wards are due to be the first to go.

No new patients are being booked in, and the management plan to put patients now in Ward 2 into Ward 1 after they have been to the operating theatre.

The nurses and sister on Ward 2 are very upset about this 'hijacking' of patients. Staff are faced with the choice of turning patients from operating theatre back to Ward 2, or letting it be run down.

To cover up this ploy, the administrators have offered more nursery staff, including agency nurses, se Ward 1.

The workers good of the patiento as their uppermost consideration and are reluctant to play management at their own game. However, they know that only action against every cut bas maintained this hospital.

Doctors must speak out and not follow the dictats of the cutters. Nurses and porters working in unison will have to defy these directives.

The ambulance drivers decided they would bring patients to St Mary's casualty whatever the administrators said, and forced them to back down on their instructions not to bring in ambulances. This gort of determined action is the only language these toadies underetand.

The domestics, too, have refused to be intimidated and are supporting shop steward Rita Maxim, who has again had a disciplin. ary bearing for refusing to do work of another grade.

The fight to save St Mary's - a big goneral hospital - is quite different to the occupationg in relatively small specialist hospitals such as St Benediet's and Longworth. Ditcult medical questions which are a matter of life and death have to be taken every day.

It is vital that this struggle is not isolated, but becomes a focus for the overall fight against cuts, particularly in London.

Steps to spread action in support of St Mary's W9 will be discussed at a conference on Saturday Nov. ember 21 in Porchester Hall, starting llam. All supporters are welcome.

Regular commitmenta to picket are also urgently required from all labour movement organisationg. Any organisation or indiv. idual wishing to commit themselves should ring the Defence Committee at 01-286 4884 x 544/372.

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