patient Anne Culisandro from the maternity ward of Morriston hosp ital. Swansea. has produced a stalemate in the first private-beds disp ute in South Walex The provocative actions ol the consultants, aided by the Area Health Authontics, shows thal they do not intend to give up. They are Dow threalening to put another privute patient in to the Morriston. ples iwa others into lospitals in the Rhondda.
Seven hospitals in thee South Thales arep were involved in scrike action onr the Morriston private paticnt.
sca NeaLlt Port Tulbot and the Rhandda initiative.
Nurses and ancillary workers in Swan undertook to support any initiatives Joun ched by the Morriston health workens and most of them voted to strike every Wednesday until the dispute was oner. Last week, reprosentatieos of 15,000 hos pical workers in South Wales cook a aimilat docision to give full sipport to any action taken at Morriston.
The Lan on all servicos (food, teleph ones bed changes, ete) to patients and consultans asing private beds and the calling of a mass aceting umediady a arnalo palient is adaitled is an excllent The esolutions of support for che action at tbe Morriston sent by lacil minun, seel workors, car workers and many orlers shows that sections of the Wulkaig cule are beannine to n'alte that they hare a vested interest in bach delenaing and expanding the NIS, The task now is to bule on and extend that support, because there is bo doubt that the Glamorgan Hoddi Authority like Hoalch Autlorities all oser Britain- will soon he in sction again on the private-patient Irant.
W'orkers at the Morriston, and licaltl worken from other boapitals in the arca, ahioule be spouking at as many traule union and factory meetings as possible in the nust few weeks, Thoy sbould explnin how thei fight is a light on beladf of all tho working class, and as such requires maximum sapport The campaiee should abso he discet ed at the local Labour Councila, Insating Hat they dp not pire any planning perm wsion for private hospitals and that they Lot au mnwtie nautoe tiana
THE STRIKE involving 14 scaffolders victimised for union activity at the Eldon Square site in Newcastle has entered its sixteenth week. And the local Labour Council has finally come out in the open over the dispute - firmly nailing its colours to the mast of the employers, McAlpines.
Walter Wilson, Labour Councillor and chairman of the Council Development Committee, has accused the strikers of holding the ratepayers to ransom and has called for tougher police action against the picket lines. This after ten have already been arrested on trumped-up charges! PRESTIGE PROJECT The Labour Council has a 51 per cent stake in the £40 million prestipe project, but has taken no action to force McAlpine's to reinstate the men. Now, with the property developers breathing down their necks since the rest of the site walked off in sympathy on 3 February, the Labour Council is beginning to wield the big stick —at the workers In an area where another jailed Poulson associate, Andrew Cunning ham, was head of the General and Municipal Workers Union, the local misleaders of the Fransport and General Workers Union and the ands on all the jobs covered are arranging further mass meetings Student support is also broadening A mass meeting of 400 students in Manchester heard Geoff Ryan of the IMG put their case. A collection of over E18 was raised. Meanwhile the Newcastle Arca National Union of Students is aranging for the scaffolders to tour all the 22 local colleges.
ATTACKS ON PICKETS Chairman of the NUS Area and IMG militant Steve Faulkner told Red Weekly: "We believe it is vital that the scaffolders' strike is won. Since the Labour Government came to power, not only have the Shrewsbury pickets remained in prison, but there have been more attacks on pickets - at Wingrove & Rogers in Liverpool, at Salford Electrical Instruments, Manchester, and during the recent Intex strike. Most important for students, there has been the decision in the "Prebbles' case just before Christmas in which the judge ruled that picketing in anything but industrial disputes was illegal.
*This decision must be reversed, and we must also get the charges dropped against the ten pickets arrested in Newcastle, Otherwise the Labour Government will Teel free to step up its harassment of HAD TO