agreed that Mrs Castle should concede the doctors demands for a 40-hour week and full rates of overtime pay. It was, however, opposed to the stand taken by many these doctors in support of private practice, and recommended that no support should be given to any such demands which had the effect of undermining the NHS even further.
In order to co-ordinate the Committee's work on a national scale it was agreed to publish a regular bulletin. The aim of the bulletin will be to win support across the whole labour movement for the demands of the Conference, and trade union branches both inside and outside the the NHS will be asked to take subscriptions and bulk orders.
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Besides carrying regular reports of local struggles, revealing information about Government cut-backs, and running a regular letters column, the bulletin will carry material on important questions such as workers control in the NHS. tute of Workers Control have been asked to submit a discussion article for the second edition on this issue, which will be followed by a contribution from MCAPP.
The members of the Committee decided to circulate a fund-raising PATH AREA INTERNATIONAL MARXIST months previously. er be used.
The Instiagain....and again.
LONDON The scandal of homes lying empty has brought a militant response from social workers all over London. In Islington, 3,000 homes lie empty. hypothermia - that was the result when Camden's Labour Council turned off the night heating on the Somers Town Council Estate in order to save money. Room temperatures had dropped to one degree centigrade. say tenants - in one case, in the flat of a man dying from cancer.
It was then discovered that this deadly policy was being enforced on two thirds of the Council's estates. At first the authorities attempted to deny it - a leading Labour councillor on the housing committee said it was impossible for the Council to turn off the heating. But investigations conducted by Tom Devine, Vice-Chairman of St Pancras South Labour Party, soon revealed that time switches had been specially fitted seven The Party's Executive Committee moved rapidly to confront this lie. A motion was overwhelmingly carried which concluded: "The EC wishes to make it absolutely clear that it regards this Council action as a scandal of the first order, which unless immediately put right, will deserve the full threat of industrial and media reaction it will receive."
Faced with such determined opposition, an apology has now been issued by the Housing and Social Services department.
But the 'left' Camden Council will not get off the hook so easily. Sixty-three tenants on the Somers Town Estate are now claiming back money paid for heating which they never got.
This sordid little episode shows only too clearly that we were not exaggerating when we wrote a few weeks ago that as a result of their frenzied efforts to safeguard capitalist profits, Wilson and his ilk are in the most literal sense murderers of the working people'. On this occasion they were robbed of their victims. But only the most vigilant and united working class campaign against the cuts will stop them from striking again....and La fight.
hostel accommocaon.
GROWS & rather than go to a hostel.
Councils have Time switches will no long- ence. *Don't demolish any more houses, improve them." Of course, when they follow this line they are then told: Sorry but we can't give you any more money to improve them.' The councils - many Labour - passively accept inis stuanon, and it is left to their employees to wage Tower Hamlets social workers have voted not to send any more families to new nave aise organised demonstrations and strike action to protest against their Council's polthreat of disciplinary action over the action of 16 social workers who allowed a homeless family to squat in their offices Doc a services ceo remen workers i Islington have laid down the law to their council - stop freezing job vacancies or we refuse to take on any new cases. Social workers in Newham have been angered by a proposal to cut the number of social workers during the day in order to service a night and emergency staff. A
6 Students face two particular probNG challenge the 'lefts" in the trade union red weekly 13 november 1975 JTWUE TERCHir IN INNER LONDOr IMG students have been fighting for for LPYS demonstrations on youth em,social service cuts 3 class down the river. It has shown it self to be completely cynical about defending living standards and democratIc ngats. it snould oe removed from the leadership of the labour movement All students can support this fight by joining forces with any workers who oppose this leadership both inside and outside the Labour Party.
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But students still remain isolated from the labour movement. Their voice goes unheard at the conferences of the Labour Party and the TUC. If students wish to form alliances with workers they have to use all forums open to them to do this. The IMG has begun to campaign for the NUS to affiliate to the Labour Party not because it believes in
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IN CAMDEN Two babies blue with cold and four old age pensioners suffering from