workers came out in solidarity. Elsowhere, engineering workers in Newcastle stopped work for two hours: Manchester dockers hald a 24 hour stoppage: and patients at the Whittington Hospital in North London went on hunger strike for a day in support of the nurses nurses' struggle have been set up in more and more areas over the past week. And other sections of workers have taken strike action in support of the nurses: engineering workers at CA Parsons, Newcastle; 3,000 workers at Automotive Products, Leamington; the 24 hour strike by 800 Manchester Doncaster Trades Council is planning to call for a stoppage in the area. Support committees of local trade unionists, students, tenants" associations, and women's groups have been set up in several parts of the country.
GROWING MILITANCY It is clear from the growing militancy of nurses that the inquiry is heing soen for what it it-an attempt to dampen their struggle and isolate them from other WOTACES Although the fight for better pay has cained some momentum, militant face a number of major probicies the bck of a badershin which acros 10 3 common chime the ack of a coordinalcu campan or acton to win toc cat." way or involving sections ol nurses who me not organised is trade unsons, Ene movement ot other health workers. pievention of Victimsions: and, most pontant ol all, how to win wider layers in the working class to support for the strugglo.
In many hospitals and arcal action committees have been set up. Such mmittees should be elected and monsole to mass mectings ol an solvod in the struggle, With the long adilos of anti-trade union propaganda which sames nave beca sabicclou, le only through action that the need for Limited strike action should be used to free nurses to organise support at factory gate meetings. In Leamington. nurses from Warneford, Warwick and Weston, Royal Midland Home marched to Automative Products. where the 3,000 workers came out and supported them. Next woek these same nurses are planning a similar march to the Ford foundry in Leamington.
Leaficting and pickets calline for industrial weight would be decisive.
EMERGENCY CASES
During stoppages and bans on extra duties the action committees should be responsible for deciding what are emergency cases. Detenmining running levels in the wards should also be the committees" responsibility. In this way nurses can begin to draw in other sections of hospital workers, and, for example, Investigate which stafting levels give the optimum care to patients.
Joint actions with other sections in struggle should be oreanised: lunior doctors febting for a reduction in their 1027 подг воткаль моск, гододгарость united action should be seen as finst stens to the stabilsent of oint shon slewands committees where these don't MANY LAIS Nurse agencies must be pickered to explsin why nurses should not go to them, and that the solution to staff shortazes s not more acencos but bolict A ban must be placco on au private patients, and the statt and tacies uvod for NHS patients."
Indefinite all out sinkes in hospitals are boond to affect the working class. To enable the hospitals to provide essential must take senke action on behall of the The COHSE, NUPE and RCN Yous Workers from Automotive Products in Leamington cheer on a nurses' demonstration. The nurses marched to the plant and 3,000 also struggling for dafterest demands, Gi LifE WORTH demanding C40 for a 40 hour week.)