held outside the City hall as over unionists converged for a lunchtime rally. • In Bristol.
brigades union took partille acuon Middlesborough.
employees met.
post ornice workels gave len support standstil.
At Waterloo station, came out on strike for the whole day.
demonstradois condon nas secil statustill. 1 WU yard in Ardesier.
dancy joined the Royce, Albion Motors complete standstill railworkers, and the docks stopped work. thousand on for rallies.
pool's transport workers, workers. aockers.
USDAW, NALGO and UCATT. • In Sheffield. An overspill meeting had to be Three thousand trade united in one of the biggest demonstrations the city has seen for years. Members of the UCW, NUPE IGWU, USDAW, NALGO, EETPU and the Fire • In Leeds. Over five thousand local government workers took strike action for two hours and 1000 trade unionists marched from the Civic Hall.
Five hundred unionists couldn't get into a packed rally of over 600 workers. At another lunchtime rally, 600 ICI • In Cheltenham. Members of the transport and general workers unions, engineers, firefighters and • In London. Engineers brought Fleet Street to a No national newspapers arrived in the South West for two days because of strike action at Waterloo and Paddington railway stations.
80 per cent of workers Forty thousand trade unionists rallied in Central London for one of the biggest weekday • In Scotland. Factories and shipyards came to a thousand Oll r12 construction workers walked out for the day at McDermott's Workers from factories threatened with redunaction with strikes (BL), BL Trucks Bathe Bish Rail ne work was rought to a Scott Lithgow and Yarrow shipyards.
action with derio versues having totee laid demonstrated • In Merseyside. One hundred thousand workers took some form of action during the day. Despite employees, Fords Vauxhall HenDers of the non anel HIll norhers Tories. shut out.
Engineering walked thousands.
Rolls firms took action rentary shaw workers Seven 1UI Aerospace Atkinson;
Graft NGA! ike Shell were also out.
In LES MIRRAS's call for orikes and demonstralions on 28 February gare trade unioniss only ene working das to organise. Bat compromide tens of meeting halls to merilowing.
Dochers, satarers, gas. dectricits and hospital warher united to defend the union.
Por civil serranda, the das a serihe action to delen the Gif HO unions was their bigges ener more civil serrando fahing action than during the 198! national par campaign The Td call wis it green light to thonsnds of national industrial 1101 defean the Tories.
thes demonstrado that there in a will do lahe on the Action in THERE WAS standing room only in Manchester's Free Trade Hall as 3000 strikers packed in for a rally to defend the GCHQ unions. Hundreds more were All train services from Piccadilly came to a halt and firefighters joined hospital workers in providing only emergency cover.
WUKCS out their All the major on GEC Openwhere a joint mass GEC shop and staff voted alliull, Woodford British al Cadderton; Seddon ward out, Goldstone and Gardeners sister are only part of a long list.
workers nike Shine rin Carringnts plants Danc Steve Trafford Park once the largest industrial of norhers nent on rihe and pached Fiction 1o . B! Their action on 28 February estate in Europe and now pretty much an industrial waste ane suppolt wa also strong. For the first time in many years, the complex which employs 6000 workers was at a standstill.
The 1000-strong Massey Ferguson plant al Barton Dock Road was while its 500-strong factory, Central Parts Operation voted 5 to one for 24-hour stopCPO Convenor Taylor, explained that the issue was a basic • union rights. 'We can't let them get away CCSU rights to that the the became Duffy, AUEW neither 'T've much . In fact I've says Trade unionists maren in solidarity
Socialist Action . 9 March 1984 SCOTTISH LABOUR PARTY'S annual hospital brought resentIt demands a programme Amendments from the NUM and others beef-up