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WILL THE fund reach the £1,000 target in June? The The four days aince our last fund column have brought us news that lalington supporters are planning a jumble sale.

Our total eo far is 1379.50. With a big effort from all our There'a still time to organise an after-the-election social; or organ. ise a rattle, getting people to predict your local result, or the number of Labour MPs there 'Il be in the next Parliament. or how few votes And if your Socialist Organiser group is one of the many holding an After the election, where next?' meeting, show your support by • Thanks this week to Steve Battlemuch in Nottingham (£10) and to Coventry supporters Matthew Jones, 85; Jean Lane, 25; Nick LawSend donations to: The Treasurer, 214 Sickert Court, London NI ampaigners' comments THE MOST important place to campaign for a Labour vote is in the workpiace, where Labour supporters can best be organised not only Some Labour Party workplace branches have already been set up since last year'e Labour conference made them constitutional. Last week we reported on the campaigning work done in Cammell Lairds shipyard, Merseyside, and among Haringey council workers.

At the BL Cowley Assembly plant, shop stewards have helped leaf. let the factory and organise a factory gate meeting. Labour candidater have spoken at workplace meetings in many hospitals, including the «Heath hospital, Cardiff; Middlewood hospital, Shetfield; Basingstoke district hospital; and the Brook hospital, South-East London (where NUPE general secretary Rodney Bickerstalf joined Labour candidate These meetings have given workers an opportunity not just to laten, but to challenge and question candidates on the issues. After June 9 the job must be to put this input on a regular basis, with Labour One group of workers without Labour government could not do fond memories of the last Labour the same thing again. Some FBU activists reacted to the with a "plague on both your nine week strike against the houses" view and are toying with Labour government in 1977 by the SDP. When it is pointed out joining the Labour Party, deter- to them that the leadership of mined to change it so that a the SDP were the fiercest opponin the balance.

ere we can reach 11, 000 by June 301 the RCP will get this time.

having a collection for the fund.

rence, 4l; Julia Bedman and Keith White, 25. 2SY.

-hearsala Foot campaigns in Coventry gne Rents of the firemen in the last Labour government,, they have to agree.

When Jack Taylor, Labour to vote but to become an active political force. candidate for Selly Oak, was taken to Bournbrook Fire Station, one Labour supporter complained that the Party - was too left wing. But he also praised the previous Labour MP for Selly Oak, the late Tom Litterick, for standing up for the firemen against Callaghan and Merlyn Rees in 1977.

This contradictory sort of view is shared by many in the Audrey Wise). FBU.

Some firemen are very hostile to Labour's defence policy and the CND supporters within the Party workplace branches, FBU face a long battle to win the argument on nuclear weapons.

Carla Jamison, Basingstoke Doug Mackay, FBU.

Basingstoke is one of the few constituencies where Labour has government are the firemen. Other firemen have reacted actually gained from boundary changes. The immediate effect was that David Mitchell, the sitting Tory MP for 19 years, packed his bags and left for neighbouring Hampshire North CAMPAIGN or PALESTINE Movement Campaign for Palestine WEEKEND SCHOOL The Peaceful Road to June 18-19, 11am County London SE1 Speakers: Avishai Erlich (The all the ester tea Preme Kegen a little she sur 19s countessing de collaps Zionist State); Moshe. Machpeter nathan 1718101-2°11.• over (Labour Zionism); Nira