tions from wages for time lost during the stoppage.
Miners were a tamiliar sight on unemplovment marches.
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BENGALI FRIENDS in Europe and elsewhere, fo engali books and 'Srani-Dal-Biplab' (Fourth Internat ional papert contact- bengail, c/o internationale Box 3214, 103bb stockholm. swede BREAK ALL LINKS with Fascist Spain! Public meet speaker trom rot, sponsored by soutnal and engineers began on 11 March 1922, the unemployed movement gave unstinting support to the engineers. They took the lead in picketing. They raided factories where scabs were working. They organised joint rallies and demonstrations. Mass action by the unemployed and the engineers often forced the Guardians to pay relief rates to the enginThe next step was the organisation of hunger marches from all over Britain. Workers converged on London from Wales, Scotland, the North-West and the North-East. Imaginative tactics were used, such as occupations of the Ministry of Health and the march by 25,000 unemployed workers down Whitehall with red flags flying on Armistice Day - the pawn tickets from their 'hocked' medals pinned to the flags.
ployed struggles, the Trades Union Congress in September 1923 accepittee with the National Unemployed Workers' Committee Movement. In January 1924 this committee approved a draft of an Unemployed Workers' Charter prepared by the NUWCM. The Charter called for work or effective maintenance, a programme of government works, the cutting of the working day to six hours, and the building of at least a million new homes.
The campaign for such a prog ramme, however, was limited by the failure of the TUC to organise effective action amongst the employed workers. The idea of a 24-hour genWhen a national lock-out of the Under the pressure of the unemted a proposal to set up a joint commby the TUC leaders.
The Junior Hospital Doctors' dispute appears to be subsiding for the time being. But the crisis in the Health Service is far from over. The Labour Government is still pressing ahead with its needs action by both health workers and other trade unionists.
To get such a campaign underway means building regional conferences called by the National Coordinating Committee Against Red Weekly 18 December 1975 The first edition of the NCC Bulletin containing information on the cuts and local reports on the struggle against them is now on sale. on in detending the wris, so place your orders NOW. It costs 5p a copy, for 4p for bulk orders over 25) plus postage and packing. Send your orders (pre-paid to Dr Paul Stern, 55 Bridge Lane, London N.w.1. cheques/ros payable to *National Co-ordinating CommitteeNO This is a vital weap National Health .....'a health service under the control of working people.' RAL INI Cuts 5 • Thirty trade unionists from South hampton and Portsmouth - from the hospitals, docks, Fawley oil refinery, the construction industry, and from the Portsmouth Action Committee Against the Cuts - met last week to hammer out a policy against the cuts for the southern region.
A Regional Action Committee was formed to campaign for a demonstration and lobby of the Hampshire County Council on 29 January, a regional conference on 21 February, and a demonstration against unemployment and the cuts in early March. One function of the conference will be to elect a more representative body - hopefully with the sponsorship of the South East Region of the TUC - to co-ordinate action throughout the South.
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