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COHSE's executive has yet to decide whether to go for a branch ballot or a recall conference. Activists in CoHSE should demand a recall conference - and fast!

There is no good reason why convening a recall conference should take more than a week or two. But if the process is spun out longer, then it will be a question of an all-out strike to start just before Christmas.

We must press for a quick decision, at least by the major unions, and a quick move to action.

No doubt the bosses' press will creak into action, telling • hospital workers about the folly of an all-out strike. We have to arm our members with our own leaflets and bulletins.

The transport day of action' on November 8 poses a problem, since many hospital workers are absolutely sick of one-day stoppages.

The TUC is recommending a 24 hour strike by transport workers on that day. The unions are not doing much to mobilise action. But the trains and buses can be stopped if health workers go out to the depots campaigning for strikes - and if they are stopped, that will make November 8 a success to take away the taste of failure from the regional days of action.

It is crucial that hospitals come out, even if we have to grit our teeth over yet another one-day action.

Depots

Mass leafleting and health workers' pickets at rail and bus depots are essential. And if hospital workers go to work on the 8th, it will be a blow to the unity that has been built up between us and other workers, and it will be seen as a moral victory by Fowler and Fleet Street.

A good turnout on November 8 can also boost the campaign for an all-out strike.

We have now been given a chance to take effective action, and we must stewares conterences LOTULcoming in Sheffield and in Scotland will provide an opportunity to launch the campaign.