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Awards from the hotel. the rights of their members Members of the Associa- is an indication that the tion of Broadcasting officials have learned noStaffs had refused to cross thing from previous bitter the picket line until instruc- struggles.

THF has also tried to get industrial action, involving an injunction to stop the the blacking of supplies hotel workers picketing, and services and the saying that it is costing systematic picketing of them thousands of pounds Grosvenor House and other - but the judge threw it THF hotels by GMBU and out. The union is going to other unions.

force THF to grant con- self willing to spend money tracts of employment and on an apparently determinOrganiser groups in most major towns and cities. See below area. If you want more details, or if there is no group listed and return the 'Get Organised' form. ON Monday 21 March 400 printers at Park Royal in North West London and 150 in East Kilbride, near Glasgow, were sacked by millionaire Labour Party member Robert Maxwell.

Sacked workers, members of the print union HOTEL workers are again taking on the bitterly anti-union Trust House Forte company.

Pickets have successfully siopped refuse collection by Westminster cil, mall, and a number of other deliveries since 28 union members were sacked at THF's leading hotel, the Grosvenor House in Park Lane, London.

On Sunday 20th the workers were joined by supporters on the picket line as the BBC screened the British Academy ted by a court order on Friday 18th.

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court on March 31 to try to reinstatement.

There are Socialist for details of your for your area, fill in Oxford. SO sold at the is ornmarket (Saturday llam to 1pm) and outside Tesco, Cowley Rd (Friday 5pm-7pm). Also at EOA Books, Cowley Rd.

Basingstoke. Business meetings March 25 and April 8. Public meeting: May 16, 'Is a Socialist Revolution possible in Britain?' All meetings, 7.30pm, Chute House. •LONDON North-West London. Readers' , meetings first Sunday of month. Phone Mick, 624 1931, for details. SO is sold at Kilburn Books.

Islington. Next meeting March 27, 4pm at Thornhill Or The GMBU started recruiting in the hotel last July, and soon won some improvements. But on February 26, 28 members were sacked. THF said they were casuals, though some had worked hotel for 20 years.

Legal

This is not by any means the first such experience in the fight for union organisation at THF. But the fact that the union is relying upon legal action (and industrial tribunals) to secure 1L -The only way to confront a vicious and nation-wide employer like THF is by a full-scale mobilisation of The GMBU has shown ited campaign: the next few Neighbourhood Project, Orkney House, Caledonian Road/Copenhagen Street. Martyn Honeywell (Latin America Bureau) on 'The War in El Salvador'. For childcare phone Nik, 278 1341.

Haringey Contact 802 0771 or 348 5941. Meets every other Thursday, 7.30 pm, Trade Union Centre, Brabant Rd. Next meeting March 24.

Tower Hamlets. 377 1328. Meets ly on Fridays, 8.30pm.

Southwark/Lambeth meets every other Wednesday, Lansbury House, 41 Camberwell Grove, SE5. Business meeting 7.30pm. Open Forum discussion at 8.30pm. Next meeting:

at the Contact fortnight6.30 to weeks will tell whether the! are prepared this timı to commit themselves t the extension of the fight i defiance of Tory anti-unior laws, which alone can se cure a victory.

The whole labour move ment must . rally round tr help crack this bastion o unorganised labour in the catering industry.

As one picket told us THF "don't mind unions as long as you don't join one.' Messages and donations to Pam Gudgeon, GMBU 4-6 Dukes Road, Londor WC1.

GMBU's Basnett Wednesday 30 March -speaker from South London Women's Hospital.

Educationals in basic Marxism: Sunday April 1( at 7.30 pm. "Why the work. ing class is a revolutionary class'. For details of venue phone lan on 609 3071.

Hounslow. SO sold outside All Saints Church, Hounslow High Street, Saturday 10.30-12. Next meeting:

Hackney. Contact c/o And. rew Hornung, 28 Carlton Mansions, Holmleigh Rd, N16.

SO is sold at the following London bookshops: Collets, Central Books, The Other Bookshop, Bookmarks, Bookplace [Peckham Rd, SE15], and Reading Matters [Wood Green Shopping City].

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