We have 16 days to raise £912 12s 4d

council si the town sewage workers return.

In Bournemouth union officials have warned that there will be a 'stoppage of all council workers if the council goes on using private contractors to clear a rubbish dump in the town.

At Portsmouth 30,000 THE RESPONSE is still too The big response to the Slow. Yesterday's postbag paper proves we can achieve brought in £46 16s leaving us the total if we fight politically with £912 12s 4d to raise for it. We urge all our readers towards the £1,250 October Stop out now. target. campaign The determined reply of the immediately to raise every council workers and other penny you can towards the trade unionists to the Tories, fund. Send your donations to: makes us even more con- Workers Press vinced on the need to expand Appeal Fund, and develop the Workers 186a Clapham High Street, Press. London, SW4. ST HELENS Employers refuse to re-instate builders week to discuss action that can be taken to get UNIONS representing the 75 sacked St Helens building workers will meet at district level this the men re-instated.

rikes children were turned away from school as caretakers and cleaners joined the In London union leaders said that the refuse strike will be extended to the other 31 boroughs if settlement was not reached at Friday's national talks.

Hull march

La success OVER 700 local council workers marched through Hull in support of their pay claim. Dustmen, sewage workers, school cleaners and caretakers shouted, 'What we want is 55s'.

Many workers said that there should be an all-out stoppage in the city. After the march a number of demonstrators attended a corporation meeting.

The men were fired on Tuesday by Rowlinson Construction Ltd, for attending a demonstration in the town in support of the victimized Pilkington glassworkers.

A further 16 of their workmates were also sacked for joining picket lines outside the site gates at Liverpool Rd near the giant rikingtons sheet glass plant.

Harry Walker, NW organizer for the Amalgamated Society Woodworkers, told the ment had told him that they were not prepared to discuss the dispute.

NO TALKS 'We asked them to be sensible and re-instate the men, but he said that he was not prepared to discuss the question at all,' said Mr Walker.

'We will not allow the firm to recruit other labour-we are 99 per cent organized up here in the North.

I think the firm will have to come back to us. It must be costing them thousands with the site closed. It's like a graveyard there.' It is understood that Rowlinson are approaching St Helens Corporation to obtain an extension on the site completion date to avoid the payment of fines that will be levied by the council if they fail to meet the building completion date.

Meanwhile in St Helens police were continuing their investigation yesterday into a phone call that threatened the life of Lady Pilkington, wife of the glass tycoon Lord Pilkington.

SHOCK

After receiving ' the call Lady Pilkington said:

It was a terrible shock at the time and I handed the phone over to my husband. • have now got over the shock'