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COPS LAY INTO HOTEL WORKERS

Red Weekly No. 178, 1976 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 174 words

The scan: rw-no178-dec-9-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 2 of the scan

staff at Oxford's Randolph Hotel. the Randolph arose afte OFFICIAL strike action in Oxford's hotel industry spread last week, and wi came astesoine uo or pource viorence dealist une surincto For two weeks workers at the Linton Lodge Hotel have been on strike over victimisation and union recognition. Last week they were joined by As with the Linton dispute, the one a management had sacked union attempt to smash the efforts of the staff to improve their miserable pay members in an having. Most deliveries drafted in from outside Oxford. responded to a 200 strona picket outside the Linton by picking on individual pickets, punching them, pushing to the ground and kicking them.

But the police violence is a testimony to the successes the strikers are at being stopped Then they arrested four for each year.

at both the Randolph and which women the right to abortion were re pealed, it has been estimated that 80,000 women would be driven to backstreet abortion DIIINACDINC

page 3 of the scan

RED WEEKLY 9 December 1976 3

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