Southampton students to stage area grants strike

Workers Press no. 974, 18 January 1973 · scan page 12

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SOUTHAMPTON University and about 30 colleges the will stage a one-day strike next week in support of supplementary grants. The decision to hold the strike on Thursday, January 25, was taken by by 230 votes to seven. students' union at Southampton The resolution called for a campaign on supplementary grants and the removal of the Tory government.

The West Hampshire Area Students' Federation has endorsed the policy.

Digby, Jacks, president of the National Union of Students and a member of the Communist Party, will speak at a rally at Fareham Technical College. DIGBY JACKS ... to address students' nally Southampton Trades Council has agreed to send a delegation and a speaker while the local electricians' union branch will support the march.

The march will start at Asylum Green at 2 p.m. and will proceed to Central Halls in city centre.

Yesterday Portsmouth Polytechnic decided to strike and demonstrate on January 29.