MARCHERS RALLY TO HOSPITAL WORKERS TORY PAY BOARD SHOUTED DOWN

Workers Press no. 1041, 6 April 1973 · scan page 2

Topics: Post office and public services, Health and welfare, Tory government, Wages and prices

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THE DETERMINATION of hospital workers to continue their fight against the Tory gov. ernment's state pay laws was shown on the streets of London yesterday.

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Party Building Fun 186a Clapham t ligh London SW4 TUG come aders 52, a sent Lonported by delegations of engineers, building workers, dockers, teachers and Post Office workers marched from Tower Hill to lobby "General Strike! Tories out!' and 'Heath out!' Union of Public Employees, was booed by his own members when he suggested that their case might Pay Board provided we know that when we go there and state our case it would be considered on its merits and implemented immediately, he said.

Fisher was speaking on his own account this statement did not represent the and General Workers' Union, was surrounded by dockers after a speech to the ancillary workers saying they deserved 'a massive' pay increase.

strike which has been going on since Hospitals branch of NUPE, which brought two coachloads to yesterday's march, described Fisher's statement on the Pay Board as rubbish'.

the Pay Board. We must continue this fight and we must have the support of the rest of the trade union movement. It would be disastrous for the whole movement if we were to be defeated.' We need help to get the Tory government outbut this must be done regardless of whether we lated further.

Don branch Mary's, criticized More than 2,000 hospital workers supMPs at Westminster. The chanting demonstrators shouted along the route of the march. Alan Fisher, general secretary of the National be taken to the Tories' Pay Board. We would be prepared to put our case to the Other hospital union leaders present view of the hospital unions. Jack Jones, general secretary of the Transport The dockers demanded to know if the would be made official. Pat Ward, chairman of the Oxford United He said: 'We won't get anywhere by going to Oxford branch secretary, Vince Scannell, said: win or lose. Our branch is absolutely convinced we must continue with this action. It has to be escaSteadman, NUPE secretary at St Paddington, also Fisher's statement.

'We'll get nothing from the Pay Board. This is typical. We're getting no leadership from the top, and we've been let down already by the TUC. But the fight must go on and we must get the Tories out.' Many strikers felt real bitterness about the role of At today's finance and general purposes committee meeting an appeal for help said that and that collective London Monday for the hospital be heard.

This is the same body of bureaucrats which refused to come to the aid of the civil servants and the gas All that Feather, Scanlon and Jones will do today is to express 'sympathy' with the ancillary workers and offer 'moral support.

At today's meeting Scanlon has the opportunity to act on his declaration that if the hospital workers are beaten, it will mean the end of trade unionism as we know it.

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