HIGHLANDS In the Scottish Highlands, just such a Jock out situation nas develoned arter more than 300 school cleaners went on surine over counch piano lu couge men BURY Turner For nearly a month, residents of Hillcrest moster renao taron centre are support ers of the Bury Action Group Against the Cuts have been occupying take the 8oainst Tareatenee cosure. mis maon- icent stand has now borne fruit in the calling of a conference against the cuts in Bury.
Radcliffe Trades Council have agreed to organise the conference in response to a reso umon trom restwich Labour rar ty. Other labour movement bodies are already approached, our trades CouncH, wnose executive were discussing the question on Tuesday.
Radcliffe Trades Council is calling for the formation of an organising committee representing all those forces in the area prepare to montor ano lane action questions about union democracy.
etoni weeks now voted to join the elected Ms Clappen as their shop the hostel strike official one of them was Wills including HIS OWn UnIOn SIrUCtUres I would like to bring to your attention a dispute at the Steak & KebaD Hestaurant in Lancaster waien nas raisee importan The workers at this restaurant have been on strike for nearly nev came our when nead walress maccie Clappen was sacked - the day after five of six full-time staff Transport & General Workers Union, Steward industry is traditionally poorly unionised - and the attitude of the T&G bureaucracy to this dispute shows one of the reasons For a start, it has taken a long time for the T&G to make the let alone build support for it. T&G district official Bob Wills has failed to raise the dispute at meeting after meeting. But when the strikers investigated the union's struc tures in the North West to see if they could get Wills replaced thev found that it was so undemocratic that a group or only six people controlled the union's entire affairs in the region - and Maggie Clappen commented after this discovery: Jack Jones is supposedly very keen on industrial democracy. It's a pity he doesn't practice what he preaches, and start by democratising Another example of the bureaucrats attitude, arter Lancaste Trades Council had passed a motion of full support for the strike, its Vice-President then went off for a meal at the res taurant. When members or tne trades counci tred to pur e motion demanding his resianation, it was ruled out of order -### JUST OUT WORKERS of IRAN:
Second printing of a new booklet with foreword by Laurence Daly, General Secretary of the NUM. Published by the