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Chancellor's office with the demand that the administration provide suitahle acci ommodation for nursery facilities as from September 1974 It coded just 24 hoars later, when the Vice-Chancellor croed to allocate 210,750 for a creche children of students and academic stalt had been going on for the past five years, and the Women's Action Group fook Tacilities set up with the help of the the cheche committee decided that further direct action was needed.
Une of the main concern of the occupiers is that the creche should be provided as a basic right and shouldn't be classed as an amenity which can only be provided at the expense of other The massive cutback in educational expenditure and the declining value of the grant have alroady ensured that less people have the opportunity for higher education. The non provision of facilities for looking after the children of students, domestic and academic statt children, but more so against women who are the ones who find themselves with the responsibility for looking alter As part of the national NUS grants ста sc H Stoches пас шаси over a recently-built office building that has been sitting empry for the past two sears, 1E is just one or 20 such huildings in Newcastle.
More students and homeless people are joining the occupation daily. The Newcastle Trades Council and the Bindon tollery num are supporans the action, and the Trades Council has agreed to sponsor a public meeting on the bnawne nrobien which will take place in the building on Satunday.
Toe tawcal social workers group, Case-Con, has also agreed to hold part of its conference on "Homelessness" in the building on Saturday.
The occupiers have issued an 'Open Letter to the tabour Government. It calls for the nationalisation of building land and an immediate crash housing programme. The letter goes on to urge warkers and all those affected by the lousing crisis to take over property directly through occupations and squads, even if this goes against the wishes of the Labour Government, The occupiers are also demanding that the new lahoarcontrolled Tyne side local authority uses its powers under the 1948 housing legislation to requisition empty property and provile some immediate relief for the housing problem, that it defend squatten rights, and backs the actions of those who housing needs.
Messages of support and financial assistance are required by the occup ation, and should be seat to:
Newcastle University Shidents Union, Newcastle-on Tynu.
Kent education committee is very upset Chilver Out were the demands of the Alistair Lawson, chairman of the education authority, said he had heard that a notice had gone up on the students' notice board to the effect that any student who felt he was not getting IMG member John MeGeown.
ane going to be as disruptive as this and to he ahle to cope with it, then one is university uniti it shows it can cope and operate under normal standards. the marks he should be getting should contact the president of the Stadents Linion Lawton commented: "This is striking if the university authorities are not going seluctant to pour E45,000 a year into the gles ahead.
One of the largest occupations in the began at Leicester University on Tuesday Close to 1,000 students sept in the Fielding Johnson administration building idence hall fees are to po up by C50 next.
On Friday, & March, the London Stu Name As one shadent put it at the planning