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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

Women's Charter

Red Weekly No. 62, 25 July 1974 · p. 2 of the scan · 289 words

The scan: rw-no62-jul-25-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 2 of the scan

- It's the oldest pay claim She was speaking aiter a meeting equality flank exposed this is bad?

*The probions for working women Britain Threshold Conference -RED WEEKLY talks to George Hope, Divisional Organiser, AUEW (TASSI Phone - in Support for Philip Moscrop, a local labour Councillor and member of the TGWU committee secunded the resolution He said: "We know that there will not to be equat when the Equal Pay Act is implemented.

*It's about time we fuck off women's aprons and gave them full A member of the NUT, Sue Kenyon stressed the need of the trade union movement to take up the whole question of womens oppression. "Not to do so leaves a wide half the labour movement and working force Pat Haron, a member of the TGWU and a part-time barmaid said she was not getting equal pay.

"This churter is a step forward.

There should he free contraception, Doctors are charging and MEETING The meeting decided that the execuțive of the trades council should contact all its affiliated organisations and arrange a meeting to discuss the Charler.

A campaigo on the Charler is particularly important in a city like Sheffield, There are approx imately 102,100 women workers compared to 130,819 men. Sheffield has 10 per cent more working wollen than any other area in Following the trades council meeting and a report in the local press, Kathy Cirket and Sue Kenyou were on a phone-in programme nin hy Radio Sheffield. They report that they received lots of calls from trade unionists and housewives supporting the campaign It is important that the meeting called by the trades council is made the start of a wide-based campaign for all the demands of the Charter

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