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Subscribe! Health Workers for the Full Claim meeting: Sunday July 4, 1.30pm to 5pm, Labour Club, opp. "Night Out, Bristol Birmingham.

Health Workers for "Flying pickets went ou to the pits, and 14,000 miners struck in the North West. 750 gas worker struck in Manchester, an bus drivers, civil servants, and local government demonstratind vermin demonstration central Manchester.

"Most hospitals are keeping up work-to-rules, and Hope Hospital Salford, the Centria Sterile Supplies Dept is on indef inite strike.

central stores department Guy's Hospital in London is also on indefinite strike from ond 28th, reports ANE ĞOS 'In central London off with of with a a Ss paid march from University College Hospital. There Welt large delegates from NALGO and the UCW. NATO, SA, and no members took action and joined the picket lines at Hackaty Hospital. willingly refused to cross picket lines and signed petitions, whil the police were becomin sot dent their homes an that they ripped lown placards and threa notorist who beeped!" ne ned t arrest the next In Hull, reports IAN DOLPHIN, 'th demonthe Full Claim bulletin - no.4 out soon. Order from Anna Lunts, 78 High St, Atherton, Lancs urgently needed.

WE supported an afternoon demonstration.

"A new escalation of the dispute followed on Thursday • and Friday, when the District Transport Department came out.

At the Western Infirmary in Glasgow, STAN CROOKE reports, 'there was a better response than in previous strikes. 'But people have vowed that this will be the last one-day strike' , said a NUPE shop steward.

''The demonstration through the city numbered about 8,000 and included delegations from Govan and Scott Lithgow shipyards, Shieldhall dockers and sewage workers, Cowglen Savings Bank, Rolls Royce, Barr and Stround, the GPO, teachers, bus maintenance workers, Scottish Farm Dairies, NALGO local authority workers, and 'Every pit in stopped.

"At the Southern General hospital pickets were dissatisfied with the strategy of one-day strikes.

Pickets felt that the next step should be citywide all-out strikes to build a rolling all-out national strike.

•And on all the picket lines the scale of solidarity had a decisive impact. Everywhere health workers felt that now, with that kind of support backing them up, they were starting to get somewhere.

•The question now must be whether the health unions' leadership will press home the advantage."

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