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Kent's appeal to WORKERS from the Thornton View hospital in Bradford, who have been occupying against threatened closure, lobbied the government on January 16.

The minister concerned, however, was non-committal, and refused to give a definite decision as to whether the government is prepared to defy massive public support in Bradford and close the geriatric hospital.

Meanwhile, the Regional Health Authority is attempting to undermine the occupation by the victimisation of a leading militant shop steward, Betty Elie. She has been disciplined on trumped-up charges.

This follows disciplinary action against another militant shop steward, Josie Patterson, at Westbrook hospital in Bradford.

The occupation committee is organising an open day for women on Sunday January 22, to emphasise the leading role women workers have played in the occupation. A conference is also being organised, on January 25, at Bradford University, to discuss various aspects of the occupation.

Pickets are very urgently needed, both to defend the occupațion and to boost the workers' morale. For further details contact Bradford 817575. instructed its members at Richmond to come out on strike in pursuance of its own national dispute with T.Bailey Foreman, or TBF. Four non-union journalists at Dimbleby Newspapers responded to the strike call by joining the NUJ and walking out with them.

But Dimbleby went to the courts, using the technicality that i separate company, I Bailey : was being done by Foreman printers, which just happens to share the same directors and address as the publishers of the Nottingham Evening Post.

Obediently - though expressing amazement at this application of the law - the judges ruled in Dimbleby's favour. The precedent was set: by skilful use of different companies labeis and structures, the employers in the print industry (and presumably elsewhere) can exploit the Tebbit law even more than they thought.

If Dimbleby successfully cracks the NUJ on this, any and every employer in the print will feel encouraged to look towards non-union printing and smashing the NUJ itself.

The technicalities of the case encouraged naive sections of the union's right wing to pursue a House of Lords appeal. And then, at the very point that the TUC geneed council was deciding to knife the-NGA, the Law Lords came up with a devastating piece of blackmail: they declared that they would only hear the NUJ appeal if the strike instruction were lifted at Richmond.

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no. 162 January 'Industrial