Coventry back 'all-out
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At the recent monthly joint health stewards' meeting in Coventry, it was agreed that all-out action was the only way left open by this govern. ment's intransigence and the threat to the health service.
The call for all-out action will now go back to the membership for discussion.
A delegation of about a dozen stewards will be going to the Sheffield conference on October 30. The meeting also voted to seek support from the membership for a one-day stoppage on November 8.
LAST Wednesda!. 20ch, Home Secretar! William Mhieian bai to abandon a prepared speech in face of beckling and jeering at a 2.000-strong Police Federation meeting. The cops also beckled and slow-handcapped London's new police chief, Kenneth desman.
Margaret Thatcher crmpixined. truthfully enou da: The police have had & TEr! good deal from this goternment.' For four Tears running they have had pay awards well above the odds - 13.2% last year, 10.3% this year -and real wage costs for the police are now 11.6% above 1976-7.
But clearly this has only encouraged hard-Line right-wingers and racists in ibe police to assert themsetres more.
Meanwhile a High Court judge last week authorised = court official to seize & Exering hall in SouthFEL South London, fem be local Labour coun-