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caVES 121 alth rkers he full claim 10 NO. 6 SEPTEMBER the health workers, and agreed to mount pickets of the local Rowntree Mackintosh factories.

The Scottish regional strike day is October 20. The Scottish TUC are meeting this week to consider calling a 24 hour general strike. In Edinburgh the Trades Council NHS subcommittee is organising picketing of local factories in the morning.

Instead of another demo as on September 22, there will be a turn to local housing estates, to try to involve the community in the campaign, and especially to link up with women in the home and with the all-round struggle against bad housing, inadequate health care and childcare facilities, and for a woman's right to a paid job.

CARDIFF: The miners are now organising themselves in support: they tell NHs workers which lodges are going to which hospitals! £8,000 has been raised for financing sectional strikes, which are going ahead.

The regional strike day is Monday October 11, and activists are concentrating on those sections which were out last time or where they expected action but did not get it.

LONDON: The day of actTion is fixed for October 19, also the lobby of Parliament. CoHSE have sent round a circular calling for only one member from each branch to go to it!

Action is being helped by activists who have set up a joint shop stewards' committee covering about ten hospitals. There is a meeting early this week of TGWU convenors to consider support on the regional day of action (the 15th); NHS activists are lobbying it.

SHEFFIELD: Delegates from sections of workers supporting health workers are being invited to attend the area shop stewards' . NHS committee.

LEICESTER: Similar links are being made between health workers and trade unionists taking solidarity action. NHS activists are making a call for a Leicestershire-wide conference on the Ith to prepare for the 13th, the regional action day; also for a national conference of shop stewards in the NHS, possibly on October 23 in Sheffield (it has also been supported by Nether Edge shop stewards' committee).

Jim Tolton, sacked from the Rowntree factory, got support from hospital workers* after the strikers went back to work, but the local union officials called off the action. THE controversial Think Tank report which suggested selling the health service to a central London meat pie manufacturer was planted by infiltrating members of the Militant tendency, writes our lobby correspondent.

Ministers in the Thatcher cabinet have let it be known that the Prime Minister was mortified by suggestions that she might in any way be slightly, ever so slightly lukewarm about the health service.

Cabinet members were so dismayed by the report that they ordered it to be hidden under the carpet in the Downing Street office.

Sources close to the Prime Minister said she was furious at the "bungling cretins" who had allowed the report to be leaked to the press.

she scotched rumours that it had been prepared on her personal say-so.

Ministers stressed that it was the normal job of the Think Tank to get blind drunk every lunch-time and dream up the most outrageous suggestion they could come up with in the afternoon.

But they believe that members of the extreme left wing hard core Militant tendency might have infiltrated the Think Tank to try to discredit the Conservative Government, which is riding. on the crest of a wave with public support at an all-time high.

In answer to the question "How high is your opinion of the Prime Minister?" , 3% said extremely high and the rest of the sample were detained for questioning.

But dissident members of the Cabinet have let it be known that Mrs Thatcher's distaste for the report has not always been quite so evident.

She is reported to have whacked it down on the Cabinet table before disappearing off to collapse the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and dreamed up the title herself - There is No Health in Us.

In a brilliant •new concept the report suggests only curing those parts of the body necessary for productive work. In a business tycoon this would mean that all stomach ailments would be treated free. But an unemployed labourer would not have to have the trouble of attending hospital at all -no matter how sick.

The stitching and operations would be contracted out to back street sewing firms and a new headache pill for the unemployed is undergoing trials in Chicago.

There would be no waste under the new system, sin‹ all waste products would t utilised by the pare Bellamy Pie Company an offered at discount rates 1 health workers in hospit canteens.

Conservatives hay stressed their commitmer to the health service - i particular to consultant fees "without which the modest private charges migh have to be raised"

*The TUC announce today that the next actio after the rolling Days ‹ Action would be a series ‹ local protests in each towi writes our labour correspo dent.

Workers in each tow will all be asked to hold the breath for 30 seconds at th same time in protest at th government's pay offe Transport workers wil however, be asked to breath normally and will have the own "breath of discomfort in December.

Mr Frank Chapple, chai man of the IUC, said tha militants in the healt service and other unior could extend the action a long as they liked.

The Director General ( the CBI denounced the hal minute of action as "anothe blow against productivity but predicted that in th private sector few worke would be breathing in an case.

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