PRESTON POLY: Now de you fancy being taught in a dissed army camp! Cheap cement has caused the Poly build mos to crumble, and the best the authordaily bus trip to the military. If that was not enough there's no student infront Широсі.
Preston students decided enough was cough. They drew up tweive demands including the closure of the atmy camps and the immediate provision of accommodation. To back this up they held a 24 hour occupation of the adminitration building with the sap port ut 200 local tadents WARWICK: An Encrpency General Morting of 1200 students voted on Tuesday to occupy the newly-bulle Arts Centre. The students are protestine aminst the University s dorton to withhold £34,000 of Student Union tunds and the blocking of the appointscat of a Permanent Secretary for the Union. Occuparions hire broken out in ar feast it endles, in the frst week of the Sidears are repling to the recent curs in raucanion spending. There war once a time wien the Labour Gopezement manpeted the idea of ten, highstandard edution forall. And Wilson hus wid of the social contruct Mat socin beneffer wall be proranteed If were union hold back on the wager But the Labour Goverwent hove plaved a desprenble roic only restored 17 per cear of the 180 million chopped out 5y Barber's The reat tuce of the social contrick is unmushed. The sidews at Manchemer, Warwick, Portsmontf, Bringham, Preston and Coreet her haught at ate lesson-that the on way to throw back the ring cirst arracks pet all fronts i to rely on our own independent action.
MANCHESTER: Students have occupied a disused cinenta owned by the Unerity in theit light to sive The accontinodalion crisis The cin oma, now usod as a iroreliouse was evaded Fy tasay University stud ancs whio were gon immodiate Hacking by u general meeting of students at the Polytechnic. Soon after wards ISd Polytechnic students Joined the occupation, An occupation committee, democratically elected from the 170 students, has decided to launch a massive Scaffet and poster campaign throughout Manchester colleges in support of thuir struggle. that the University turns over the cinema to the students bott to house and as a centre for the campaign.
They have the Collegs Board. direct action Ene stucas are umanene joint campaign. BIRMINGHAM: A Union meeting Ten ofiver 700 audentrut the Poly lochnic voted with only fose against to occupy the admunestration buildng. After the union meeting 500 Students joined the occupation They are fighting the proposed culsin the cducational programme, donanding no cutting of courses and an addition l 650.000 For spending on college builtingt From the cocopstion students wit launch pickers on the Local Education Authority and on And they are calling on the NUS to orpanise a national demonstration in Bitmingham against the cuts in spend ing on adoption in Birmingham on 25 PORTSMOUTH: With 4,0000 registered homeless in the town, stadents at the Polytechnic have occupied the adm inistration affices and orher parti of the college, against the housie shortages. A union meeting of 1000 stadThe students are demanding the codege linis the nocessary housing and subsidises studenis payine exceptionally high tent. And they are also launch ing a joint campaign with homeless in the tawn, demanding that the local authority takes over and equips all squats and suitable empty property janised a meeting with the local Trades Council to push forward a week. Clerical workers in Fleet Street are angry. Their umon leaders have been negotiating a pay claim that would give the average clerical worker only E4 a weck extra for the next year.
The claim made by the bureaucrats a 5 percent for all Fleet Stect workets which will increase the difference in mages between machine and clerical workers One Na bopa clerical worker tol Rrd Weekly: If the leadership of ou Un Pens is say we be to s percent worse off by next year. And these so-called leaders of ours are really proud that the clum's within the social contract. So much for the social contract being supposed to belp lower paid workers *We were hoping for an across the board increase ofat least CT0 for all Ficet Street workers-a claim that would hel as fight alongside machine workers aultst the munagement. We were also hoping for an extra week's habiday and for u 242 minimum wage What do we get? The leadership not only broaks union rules by not consulting the clerical branch about the claim, but also negotiates what announts ro a wage cut for us, Fine "representatives'" they are! Feeling is running high amongst clerial workers we te not likely to accept this sellout deal.
The Natiopa Clerical Chapel at the Observer is one of the many chapels in Fleet Street who have rejected the bureaucracy's miscrable claim. Their action over a local dispute could well he a run in to acton mn the whoe o Fleet Street, even if the burcaucrats tocommend acceptance of an offer based on the original pathetic claim Arthur Flicker, the leader of the press