May 24 : strike against missiles

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•Find out from your Regional Contact what has offer your services and suggestions. Phone Raise support for the day of strike action in your union, workplace, estate, shopping centre, school college, nursery, just anywhere you go. lf your local council has a nuclear free zone policy, and many do, demand that the council gives over office space for orgnising for the 24th. Sheffield and Leicester City Councils have already done so. •Plan action for the day itself - we can do ANYTHING, occupy, encircle, decorate, die-in, blockade at military bases, banks, armaments factories and supporting industries, nuclear bunkers, Ministry of De•Leaflet everywhere, so there can be no excuse for not knowiing what's happening on May 24. If you don't have local leaflets, they can be obtained nationally from the London Greenham office. •Demand the support of men. Ask them to take supportive strike action as well, and to help organise creches so children can be looked after and the women are free to take the main action on the day.. •Pressure to get unions to support May 24 must now be generated in local branches. Trades Councils can arrange for every delegate to take support for May 24 into their branches and arrange for speakers • Help set up local organising meetings, including women's centres, women's groups, minority ethnic women's groups, trade union woLabour Party Women's sections can take up the call and show that there are Labour Party rank and file members who are determined to commit the Labour Party to campaign on conference resolutions.

Let's make May 24 the biggest, most successful action yet! The cops won't be able to cart away May 24's protest. What you can do:

Laura) 0273 553466 for your regional contact. fence Offices. from Greenham Common to address meetings.

men's groups, anti-cuts campaigns, etc. already been planned, Brighton (Carmel or how restricted the CHC will be in joining us in a political fight, I don't know"

(George McLean, secretary No.25 Central District JSSC) 198g Another problem to be tackled is the potential division between Central District and other health workers, who may believe that cutting the Manchester Royal Infirmary will save their hospital from the axe. We want to fight every cut, but Central District is a good place to start because the attack is so blatant.

'In my authority the cuts have consisted of not filling vacancies, of freezing posts, of saving bits and pieces here, run- by to Thadite. ning down departments. It's very difficult to point to what's happening, even the stewards often don't know what's going nder add on except perhaps in their own ward or own unit.

If we can't generate a fight in Central, it's going to be very difficult to fight over the number of telephone calls you can make, freezing for three months a staff nurse vacancy somewhere in Tameside on a surgical ward... (Member of Greater Manchester Television unear Area JSSC) Since so Huge job losses are on the disarman 4a. 24 Dreade The sak SHORT cards, possibly involving up to ortunes in put there sement 600 members of staff. Although some doctors and nurses may be redeployed, many would joir technical, ancillary and clerical staff on the dole queue. Already lebied finger hem the later must of the wards and departments are: chronically understaffed and these cuts can only TAKE THE TOOLI can mad 10b Landseer Rd, London N19

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