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NO MANDATE accept NO CLEAN-UP until all the scab: Hackney council workers issues ultimatum to borough employers a mass meeting yesterday.

'Feeling is very strong among the refuse workers. In this borough we will not return until every single scab is out of the area, Len Stubbs, chairman of Hackney branch of the National Union of Public Employees told council workers who met opposite Hackney town hall.

'I am asking for your 100 per cent support in this. We have guarded the rubbish dumps throughout the strike only to see the scabs remove them under our eyes. It made us feel very bitter.

Brief meeting "The law has been there too. There were more police than flies around some of those dumps,' he said. gothis After a brief meeting with the Hackney town clerk, he reported that the council were only prepared to remove a section of the contract labour they had employed throughout the strike to maintain refuse services.

'I told the town clerk that there would be no return under these circumstances and he has agreed to contact the union's district officials to see what could be done' The meeting agreed unanimously to stay on strike until the council agreed to their demands.

On the settlement Mr Stubbs said that it was a ine nanional onel victory for the council workers, but that increases in living costs had already made the claim outdated.

'We will be in for more next year without a doubt? he told the cheering meeting.

Most workers were in favour of a return, but some dustmen condemned union leaders for accepting less than the demanded 55s.

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The mass of the meeting felt, however, that the council workers were returning in a spirit of optimism and unity and ready for any future fights for better