Officials knife all-out action

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SOCIALIST ORGANISER ANNUAL GENERAL DATE: Saturday June 26 and Sunday June 27. PLACE: Lanchester Polytechnic, Priory St, Coventry. TIME: 10am to 5pm Saturday, 10 to 4.30 Sunday. TO DECIDE: perspectives and structure for the Socialist Organiser Alliance over the next year, and elect the Socialist Organiser Secretariat. OPEN TO: all paid-up Socialist Organiser supporter (with the right to vote), and observers from trade union branches, Labour Party branches, and other labour movement bodies. eut AGENDA: will include workshops on aspects of Socialist Organiser activity, and workshops with invited speakers from the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy, the Labour Committee on Ireland, the Solidarnosc Trade Union Working Group, the Labour AMENDMENTS to resolutions can be submitted up CRECHE: available. Please give as much notice as FACILITIES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE: available. Please give us notice of requirements.

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WRITE TO: John Bloxam, Socialist *I wish to attend the Socialist Organiser AGM on June 26/27 as a paid-up SO supporter. My local SO card number is ......'enciose f....... to cover arrears in SO contributions (£1.50 per month minimum waged, 20p unwaged), and f... conference fee *Our branch (committee, CLP, etc) wishes to send the following comrades as observers to the Socialist We enclose f........ conference (*delete as appropriate. All cher Please send conference literature above. I enclose a stamped addressed had any ted report in Socialist Organiser that the whole of Sheffield would be out. Up to going to press this was true. NIPF notified all stewards that VIL action would be supporand that £12 a week Campaign for Gay Rights, etc.

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Socialist Organiser). strike pay would be provided for strikes over two days.

Emphasis was placed on this by an NEC member en c e omi snop enpatina to tha Irist 01.... Stewards Committee as a let-out for not organising a national strike.

nilo Once we had a commitment from NUPE conference to organise a national strike, the Executive refused to pay strike pay. Regional NUPE officials were informed of this and that all-out action was not on.

Consequently all-out action was not even put to the Middlewood mass meeting.

1 visited several picket lines on Friday where workers were confused as to why they weren't on indefinite strike - only two days before they thought that this was what would be happening.

The feeling was of lethargy and disinterest in a one-day action, of really just going through the motions.

On the 9th we will be lobbying the TUC Health Services Committee to call for indefinite action as the only way to get our full claim. 2,000 health workers and theit supporters marched through Sheffield in support of their 12% claim. Although not present in any great numbers 44,000 44 Ober of thorkshire, 67,000 miners stopped work in support of the NHS workers.

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This was despite a weal call from the Yorkshir NUM leadership who only asked NUM branches to sup port the action, instead o calling out the whole area.

Steel workers and engin eers locally also gavi support.

The mood of the demon stration was determined anc enthusiastic. Calls from the platform for an escalation oi the action received grea support.

The general feeling wa: that all out action couldn'1 be delayed any longer.

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