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wanted. But the propaganda and campaigning work carried on in preparing the court cases contributed to building support for the campaign.

Finally; the campaign showed that the more militant the tactic, the more responsive the Council became to its demands.

The ten year long battle also has lessons for Labour Party activists.

The campaign showed the vital importance of a District Labour Group. The Gorbals Labour Party branch is rather like the constituency Lbour Party rooms: decrepit, continually on the verge of collapse, and the personal property of the local MP.

Instead of lining up with the GADC against the Labour-controlled council, the branch adopted a stand-offish attitude towards the campaign and effectively placed itself in FIOo Party: do-nothing local councillors, and an unscrupulous careerist MP.

The campaign to prevent the privatisation of The Hutchesontown E scheme must also be the signal for launching an all-out fight to bring the Glasgow District Labour Group under the control of the Party, and to rid the Party itself of the careerists, time-servers and their camp-followers.

FOR KUR DANGED FURWITURE... TRANSPORT •Minister David Howell is all for government intervention in the GLC's affairs, forcing London Transport to ditch its Fares Fair policy and double commuters' travelling costs.

When it comes to employment, however, it's a different story. "It's not the government's task to create jobs" , he told a recent meeting in Guildford at the opening of an Unemployed People's Centre.

"It does not seem to be understood" , he told his audience, "that in a lively capitalist economy there are always new industries which will " be tomorrow's big sources of wealth and jobs"

This must be one of the most impertinent remarks of any Tory since Norman Tebbit told a group of uenmployed youngsters. "I must go now. I don't know about you, but l've got some work to do"