Although it has rejected continuing TUC pressure to call off the London Weighting atruggle, the leadership of the National And Local Government Officers association has been slow to extend the strike action in London from the original two branches out ou total strike.
At this stage the plans for spread ing selective strikes still only bring in a few dozen workers in a number of branches.
Last week, the Metropolitan District Council rejected by a very small margin a motion joinLly proposed by Islington and sower tamies pancoes demore the unmodiate call-out of Tower Hamlets and the extension of total strike action to other brunches This rejection followed the advice of the 'official" leudership of the campuignthe Chairman and Vleo-Chairman of the London Weigitting Panel-who called such a plan utopian and put forward the bank rupt strategy of increasing "pin pricks' on the Government Several speakers from Islington said and that the campaign had to be axtond if through meaningtul mass strike action all over London, atheraise there was a danger of the struggle stagnating one unions london wetenting rane and National Executive bocting this week must decide on a more iletermined plan of action. However, in the Ekely event of some hesitation on the part of the busestlecats it nemains for Live tankand hie to build outwards tram singtan to being in the rest of the London branches A, BENNETT