were still waiting to leave Hyde Park way after the speeches started at Westminster at the afternoon's rally.
Anti-Tory feeling ran high the demonstration.
Heffer's call to bring down the Tories as quickly as possible was echoed by every section of LIC CE One hospital shop steward remarked on how different this demonstration was from that in when 70,000 marched Labour ment's cuts. "Then it was just the public sector workers who took the cuts really seriously, she said, now it'severybody'.
And in truth everybody was there.
All photos: G. M. COOKSON [Soclalist Challenge Dennis Skinner won a standing ovation Eric The demonstration was led by the miners. gents came from Yorkshire and Wales, other major mining areas. The "HOSI popular them was 'One more cut -goverli Maggie's throat!' Other sections of industrial workers, railway workers, and electricians, followed close with their slogan of 'Kick out were. strike.
the inventiveness suital dra students took up Thatcher, Huge continright-wing as well as the the way for the Tories.
slogan among The women's including engineers, bebind free ter we are their unbowed after dents.
Youth were to the fore in of slogans vigour which only but also - the Ligbour Party adeos had paved leaders Womens' Aid movement was represented by scores Women's Aid groups marching • to protest the likely etfects of the cuts on women's refuges.
But nearly all the marchers a snarl from the suberintenThumbs Some marchers declared their intention of putting down resolutions to ensure that the next labour movement demonstration would be stewarded by the labour movement and not kept under the thumbs of the Metropolitan Police.
Action was the theme of the demonstration The trade union leaders who marched will be jett under no doubt that unless they name the date for strike action against the cuts, then others will be willing to start without them. =