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SUPRORT YOUM MEMBER LESS aann initer Tröistig , l THE big debate at conference this year will be pay. The current wave of stoppages will see to that despite the fact that it is lined up to be a reogranisation conference.A record number of resolutions have already been submitted on the question of pay and no doubt many of the emergency resolutions will relate directly to the current pay campaign.

It promises to be a very lively debate because for the last three years the leadership has managed to avoid being tied to an effective pay campaign.

Arbitration

the fight by using arbitration fell flat after the " de government refused point blank, although Fisher is still causing some rumblings about it.

The slowness of the national leadership to give a lead has delayed things a little but it is not too late for a successful campaign on pay. The members have the guts to fight as the results of the NUPE ballot have shown.

In response to the insulting offer made by the government, most Area Health Authorities have been affected by government action, with 3-day stoppages in some areas, WO™ to rules and overtie. pans.

Some Authorities have been reduced to accident and emergency services only already.

The fight is spreading throughout the health service already and support has been pouring in from other workers.

Miners at the South Wales Area Conference voted unanimously for industrial action, passing the following resolution:

*This Conference of va the South Wales Area of the NUM declares its support for the nurses and all the NHS workers in their justified pay claim. Being aware of their traditional loyalty and dedication to their :: patients, which prevents them from taking strike action, and as a token of solidarity, this conference recommends a one-day strike by all NUM members in South Wales at a date to be agreed with the nurses and NHS workers."

Seamen in Cardiff have : also voted for strike action and at the NUS Biennial Conference this week in Tenby, an emergency resolution will be put calling for solidarity strike action throughout the merchant navy.

With this kind of sup- With thie kind of ann. port the Executive Committee is going to have a hard job holding back the members. The prospect of one million workers linked to other powerful sections of the working class in a united struggle against the 4% would terrify the government but it will be up to Conference to make that prospect a reality.

How can we achieve this? The answer is clear. Con2200 3=.A 1203 ference must support the call for all-out coordinated industrial action to win the claim with emergency cover under workers' control.

We must force our union leadership to fight for this on the TUC Health Services Committee and for solidarity action from the other TUC-affiliated unions.

If the leadership fails to take up these demands the campaign could fail and prove that health service trade unionism cannot deliver the goods and that NHS workers are destined to poverty wages.

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2 SAYS SUPPOR YOUR USP

NUPE convenor, University Hosp- ital, Cardiff.