'MAGGIE OUT was the most popular chant of nearly ten thousand people who took to the streets of three cities on Monday to oppose the Tories' cuts.
Sheffield saw its largest demonstration since the war when 5,000 marched to the city-centre in response to a call from South Yorkshire Association of Members of the local government union, NAIGO formed the largest confingent, and they marched with other public sector workers, miners, engineering workers, the Eire Brigades Union, and steel strikers. A delegation members from Lambeth in South, London joined the Altliough a majority of workers in 14 engineering factories in Sheffield had voted for a day's stoppage, a meeting of AUEW convenors decided last week that there was not sufficient support to call a one-day strike. The farn-out on Monday, however, showed the strength of opposition to the savaging of the In Manchester, some 3,000 trades unionists, students, and pensioners joined the march led by the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, and in Liverpool 1,200 demonstrated against unemployment. Among them were Meccano workers who have occupied against the closure of their Speakers at a rally in Manchester, who included Tony Benn, urged support for the TUC demonstration on 9 May against Prior's anti-union laws, and a resolution urged the TUC to make its 14 May day of action a national strike.
There was loud applause for Brian Molyneaux, from the South Yorkshire steel strike committee, when he invited all those at the rally to join a mass picket of Manchester Steel on Wednesday.
Manchester on Monday Photo: Morning Star
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