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try, and a number of workers were nominated to serve on the first promittee.

lies in each major centre elected delegates who, meeting together, on to the first list of organising committee members. This list was visional trade union organising comAt the same time, general assembclected 24 more people to be added full rate expired. So it was that we stopped work first thing on Monday morning, in support of the following main - minimum monthly wage of 6,000 escudos (11 00)

- an immediate 35-hour week - a month's holiday paid at the extra hours worked to be paid We therefore set up a central strike committee of about seven people, made up of members of the provisional union leadership. This commit lee divided itsell into two sub-commictees one to deal with economic problems to work out • the list of demands in more detail. to study the Government's counterproposals, the policy of making the