SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE LECTURES

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mor OXFORD Thursday November 23 Opponents of Marx/am Thursday November 30 Marxism—the sclenco of perspective SOUTH OXFORD COMMUNITY CENT Lake Street, 8 p.m.

Lectures given by G. Healy SLL national secr LEEDS Monday November 27 Capitalism and the crisis Monday December 4 The struggle for power Monday December 11 Revolutionary theory and Marxist Party LONDON Sunday November 26 Basic Essentials of Ma Sunday December 3 A theory of knowledge Sunday December 10 Opponents of Marxism BEAVER HALL at Mansion House 7.30 p.m.

Lectures given by G. Healy SLL national 'EEL HOTEL loar Lane, Leeds 4 BARNSLEY inday November 26 pitalism and the crisis nday December 3 LIVERPOOL Wednesday November 22 The Third International 1924-1929 Wednesday November 29 Stalinism 1932-1938 Wednesday December 6 Trotskyism and the founding the Fourth International COMMON HALL HACKINS HEY off Dale Street, 7.30 Lectures given by Tom Kemp (SLL Central Committee)

The struggle for power Sunday December 10 Revolutionary theory and Marxist Party RED LION HOTEL (Worsborough) 8 p.n Lectures given (SLL Central Committee)

University is a One is visible relics emerge and follow the mac ornate silver lollipop-down to Lord for their exceeding good On the way they might pass Olga Hastings. She represents the other Oxford of low pay and super exploitation.

Olgay and one other woman clean out students' bedrooms, the stairs and the don's flats at St. Anne's college. For her labours she gets £5.60 a weekabout as much as the average professor pays for his port each Workers like Olga are the minions that have supported this training camp for the ruling class ever since the first college was founded seven centuries ago.

But now the revolt against the era of the 'scout, › the skivvy and the faithful retainer is on.

The new mood among the university's 4,000 manual staff broke to the surface more than two weeks ago when Frank Keen, a handyman at St Anne's College, was sacked.

The authorities claimed that Mr Keen had to go as part of an economy drive. But the St Anne's workers think difterently. Frank Keen was a pioneer of the unions and made sure everyone each department he visited knew their rights. The workers say he's been victimized.

For its own part the National Union of Public Employees sees the move as a desperate attempt by the die-hards in the university administration to stop their drive to organize Oxford's 39 colleges. place two traditions-both each Sunday when the their dusty book-lined which is a kind of St Mary's to praise the Frank Keen, a handyman employed by St Anne's College, Oxford, was sacked over two weeks ago. His dismissal caused the first major industrial dispute in the university's 700 years higtory. The college has now climbed down somewhat and an independent tribunal is looking into Keen's case. Here STEPHEN JOHNS describes the background to this unique dispute.

ATION CAL PICKET MISATION November Left: Olga Hastings probably earns a much in a week as a cleaner In Oxford university as • don will spend on his port. Below left: Students helped the pickets along with cups of tea.

all the college's facilities last week and workers at five other colleges came out in sympathetic strike.

Some of his strongest backing has come from the women cleaners like Mrs Hastings, treasurer of the St Anne's NUPE branch.

"The wages in the college are • disgrace. We get 28p an hour— hey recently offered 33pt, she we have turned this down,' she said.

'On my cleaning squad there used to be four women, there are now two, so even if we da get an increase we will be working harder.

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to unions I think it is true to say that there is resistance to the union in the college. Mr Keen did the repairs and he would tell people he met to stand up for their rights and back the union. A lot of people didn't like him because of this, said Mrs Hastings.

One of the key men in the NUPE drive is Tony Cross, secretary braneta. Mr Cross is a scours at St John's.

'The attitude of the colleges varies. Some like my own have a pretty reasonable approach, but in others the die-hards put up a hell of a fight. The governing bodies of the colleges are not the worst obstacle. The main trouble occurs at lower managerial level - some heads of department are completely hostile to unions.

*The other snag is to break some of the staff from the past. There used to be the bowing and scraping attitudes, often the job went in the family-there are still scouts in Oxford who earn as little as £12 for as much as 60 to 70 hours a week.' Encrusted privilege