THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE POLICE BILL has taken off. A mailing of 20,000 has been set out to get delegates to the conference on Sunday, May, and to publicise the march organised by the Campaign to Curb Police powers on About 10,000 - have been distributed the Fire Brigades Union, the London region of the Labour Party and others. Univings, black organisa MPs, tions, police monitoring CLPs, LPYS projects. branches other organisations against the Bill have all given their THE SACKING of two support and are sending delegates.
Organisations in the front of the fight zalll. police violence ike the Newham 8, the Roach Family Support Committe, the Stoke Newington Hackney Defence Campaign, -the Free David Avondales Campaign, set up to strug gle the release David, young Afro-Caribbean from Southall wrongly imprisoned, all joining the campaign.
The conference is going to be large. It has not been called just to discus the Bill. All the delegates. will be aware of its implications. The conference is about organising to fight the Bill. There will be Standard, Mirror WACE called the women 'witches'.
On March the management committee attempted to sack Janet Liz outright with no prior warning Under pressure from NUPE they represcitalion. agreed suspend the women and have a hearing.
But this could not have been a fair hearing - the women had already been sacked. The management committee had already stuck its neck out claiming that all the problems at the nursery would be resolved if Janet and Liz were sacked.
The management committee was the judge, jury and prosecutor: the hearThe charges levelled the women included.
negligence in their duties, being disruptive influences and having extremist and sexist attitudes.
The only independent observer at the whole hearHackney councillor, Denise Rob.
son, wrote in a letter to the management committee:
'It is my personal observafinal decision was reached however that the the evidence the defendants.
During the hearing some charges were dropped because they proved groundless. Others that remained cannot be taken seriously, for example that Janet told a child tha Father Christmas does not The policy at the nursery before Janet even have a Mother Christmas. nientv ol tributions from the floor for the election of a representative steering committee to co-ordinate national activity.
The will mobilise for the march on 22 May and for a national picketing of police stations on 4 June.
Socialist Action sup
porters must build for the organise TOT LICSC CVCHILD If a June election is called the NCCL believe the Bill WIll through by the Tories. The Bill is liable to become an election issue. Democratic rights are being savagely atbeing the Bill.
The Bill can kill: Kill The real problem was that these so-called progressive. had no clearly worked poncle. non-sexist and I non-racist practice, management/staff relations, on behavioural problems of children and how to deal with them.
Tensions arose over policy open discussion Rumours abounded.
Eventually splits arose between staff and between parents. Janet were blamed because of to anti-uniol witch.
hunters.
With the sackings, infalling apart at the seams.
The biggest blow to the management committee has come from a resolution which was passed unanimously at the workplace union meeting April (one person on zo absent) called the management committee to agree to a fair appeal for Janet and Liz, and to agree inquiry into workings of the nursery.
Anyone wishing to help should write letters or pass resolutions condemning the sackings and demanding an appeal, as well as demanding an inquiry into the nursery.
conies to the Management Committee Market Nursery, Wilde Close off Pownall London E5); to Anthony Kendall (leader Hackney Council); and to TAP Jane Pearce/Liz Thomas Support Group Box 19, Sisterwrite, 19 Up per Street, Donations would be ap. London NI.
preciated.
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