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from Women in Action, Box 2, Sisterwrite Books, 190 Upper Street, London N1. Bulk orders are offered to labour moveTHE Gardner's joint shop stewards issued the following appeal.
'In Manchester it
clear spread support struggle. Gardner's workers have a fine record for supporting gles.
'But our struggle is also important opinion polls this week show, single embarrassment Thatcher's covernment. f victory for would be an inspiration to every worker who detests The solidarity ordinary trade and unemployed workers show for single most the Gardner's struggle successful.' What you *Send support to the mediately organisation to send delegation of support.
*Organise lections, levy. Send food parcels. committee has is that there is widefor the other strugnationally. As published unembiggest to Gardner's which unionists will be the important that is "Set up your area. *Invite speakers meeting.
Messages and Marsden, Treasurer telegrams of factory im- ton Lane, chester Get your 061-789 2202.
factory col- flowing or better still, a Stone-Platt Oldham, £250.
tions national sent £200.
Mitchell Socialist regular cupation A labour movement suport committees in the Gardner's to your workers of support donations to: Dave and CSEU Strike Committee, 187 BarManM30 OMN. Tel Money and support is donation.
in from throughout the labour movement.
workers from who occupied earlier in the year against redundancies, donated At the Ferranti plant in Hollingwood, stewards are holding shopfloor •collec.
for Gardner's.
ASTMS members at InterComputers • Ltd ICL shop steward Rita explained to Challenge: ICL workers may be faced with redundancy later this year, so this fight is our fig!.!. - it nas to turn te wat agilins! the Tory Government workers to the Gardner's plant last week.
At Shell Carrinton, the TGWU stewards are taking collections and have produced leafiets to explain the Gardner's oc to their members support committee has been set up in eccies, representation trades council, the local Labour Party and five Gardner's The aim is to win support from the local community, the committee organising a social for 10 November.
Bristol Trades Council has agreed to support the occupation £35 Bolton Trades Council has voted to set up a supSocialist Challenge port committee to organise a speaking tour of the local industry. It is arranging for a speaker to attend the Rhyders plant, whose closure was announced last week Manchester North engineers shop stewards quarterly passed the following resolution: 'This quarterly urgently requests the Contederatio. district committee to con shop Steware. meeting during working hours to mobilise the trade union membership to fight unemployment.
Tours Manchester students have been touring the anti-nuclear film The War Game along with a speaker from Gardner's. The turnout ha: been enormous, students turning up at one college.
Last weekend the film was shown in the plant and in the evening at a Socialis Challenge Jobs meeting. Seventy heard Gardner's Convenor Tom Macafee Socialist Challenge supporter and Stockport Boilermakers secretary Jeff West.
They used the oppor tunity to build support for CND demonstration against missiles.
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