Hospital stops second week Vital vote to fight on

force over the next few days.

Shop stewards earlier this week submitted a claim for a substantial increase on piecework rates. They have rejected a £2.50-£2.80 offer for change-over to Measured-Day Work.

Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by • Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, 7UG. Printed Plough Newsdesk: 01-720 Londo n. Circulation: 01-622 7029. 13th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF YOUNG SOCIALISTS BLACKPOOL APRIL 14/15 1973 SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, APRIL 14 & 15, WINTER GARDENS, BLACKPOOL BRIEFLY • BRIEFLY STOCK EXCHANGE dealings in the shares of BSA, the motorcycle, guns and engineering group, were suspended yesterday after the value of the shares plunged from 19p to 4p wiping more than f2m from their market value. The company was left valued at a derisory £700,000 in share terms. BSA, which now employs 4,000 workers, has already sacked 4,600 since 1971. Chairman Lord Shawcross said yesterday that secret negotiations had been taking place for some time 'in regard to the future of the company'. MARCH FUND £346.36 - STILL A LONG WAY TO GO WE SHOULD, by now, be half way to our £1,750 target-but as you can see, we remain a long way off.

We know that this month, so far, most of your efforts were turned towards making our Pageant on March 11 such huge success. Now, from this enormous step forward, we urge you all to do everything you 90-per-cent response to students' grants strike STUDENTS' union leaders yesterday claimed a 90-percent response to their one-day strike. They want higher grants to be reviewed annually and an end to discriminatory treatment of some students because of the area they live in or their sex.

can to keep Workers Press right out in front.

It is vital that we do. Workers Press must provide a lead to gasmen, hospital workers, civil servants and railwaymen •at a time when their struggles are in danger of remaining isolated.

Our paper must be used to bulld a revolutionary leadership to unite all workers in a comBY DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT STRIKERS at St James' Hospital, south Lon terday to stay out for a second week.

Despite severe doubts about their union leaders' selective strikes policy, and the attempts of a union branch secretary to force the Tories' £2 offer down their throats, they voted 184 to 62 to continue their action.

But their stormy, 75-minute meeting revealed clearly all dangers of the unions' refusai to call all-out action against Tory pay laws.

Union official Harry Barker convinced no one with his attempt to explain why selective strikes were, in fact, more effective than a total stoppage. His contribution to the meeting merely reinforced workers' fears that they would be isolated and cut down by the Tory attack.

This opened the way for NUPE branch secretary Bert Crouch to try and persuade those who did not want to continue the strike to accept the f2 and take their case to the Tory Pay Board.

But shop steward Ivy Bailey, with a powerful speech, tion to the class character of the Pay Board.

Half a million students. took part in the strike, and yesterday afternoon thousands lobbied parliament.

Besides pointing out that the existing maximum grant totally inadequate because of the rise in the cost of living, the National Union of Students is fighting the discretionary awards system.

OVER 1,000 students marched mon struggle to make the Tory government resign.

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March Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Stre London, SW4 7UG Name Address Send secre Lond By the time their case was considered, she said, the value of the increase would have disappeared because of the rising cost of living and since it was a Tory set-up, there was every likelihood they would not get anything even if their case was considered.

She drew the meeting's attention to the Post Office workers' bitter experience with the Hardman inquiry. With the gasworkers, the civil servants and others behind them, hospital workers were in a powerful position, she said. 'But if you want to win, you've got to fight. If we go back now Heath will be laughing at us.' through the city of Aberdeen chanting 'Grants up. Heath out'. At a rally speakers called for the removal of the Tory governABOUT 70 per cent of students in Salford and Manchester yesterday stayed away from lectures in response to the one-day strike call.

John Pearson of Salford University, who led a march to Manchester, told Workers Press: It's ineffective to have one-day strikes. We need joint action with the _unions. Our fight is with the Tory government.' IN Coventry 2,000 students marched round the city centre chanting 'Heath out' "Thatcher out. Fair grants in'. IN LEEDS more than 3,500 took part in a demonstration. A meeting in Leeds University Union passed a resolution demanding the TUC call a General Strike to bring down the Tory governCreak at, oxie conte en 75 SATURDAY Trains and coaches from I would like to ence/would like to Johr mmance, iry, 180 lapham SW UG 129.

Striking hospital workers at St James's Hospital, south London, voting three to one to continue their action for a further week.

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