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Angered by the government's dishonest advert, many workers who had only ntended taking • one-day action decided to come out for the full week.

In Edinburgh's Western General, 200 ancillary workers walked out on Monday, furious about the ad. They went into work on Tuesday, held a mass meeting of 400 and voted over-N the makeshift homes of the refugees, many remained hungry and all were desperate. The whole of West Beirut stank of rat-infested piles of garbage, human excrement and dirt. There was also the distinctive smell oi the sweat of fear.

"The politicians" • the Daily Telegraph reported Workers at Middlewood and the Northern General hospitals in Sheffield are out for the whole week. In Oldham hospital, sections including sterile supplies and medical records are out indefinitely, and porters and drivers are out for the whole week. At Withington Hospital, Manchester, two sections are out indefinitely, and at the Hope Hospital 16 laundry workers are out indefinitely.

The picture is uneven, though. In some areas, Leicester for example, the action has not been so ing their negotiations outside all that, with clean shirts and iced drinks. Many felt that urgency might be inducted by inviting all those concerned to spend • a few nights in West Beirut."

In the meantime the Israeli war machine continues to bomb Beirut into is holding a one-day sympathy strike on Friday.

Pickets round the country have no illusions about their leadership. Many look at the TUC sell-out of ASLEF and suspect Spanswick and Co. have a similar plan up their sleeves.

More and more workers see that the only way the 12% will be won is through all-out action. That's the slogan that's. shouted most on marches so far.

Walkout ruins, -to maintain its threat of a full-scale invasion.

But no better can be expected from the capitalist politicians. The imperialist powers which hay sponsored Israel and used it as their number one ally and instrument in the Middle East, are hardly likely to all-out strike now and campaigns for a one-day general strike to back the fight.

The leaders can't say there isn't the support from the membership. Several groups have already come out on all-out strike and have only been forced back by their own union leaders!

All out for the 12%!

But OXFORD Health Workers for the Full Claim open meeting: What more do we have to do to win?' Thursday August 12, 7:30pm, Headington Labour Club.

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