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An MP has called on thf Prime MiNHster
to intervene quAckly to try to avert
the dhreatened strike by watdr worAdps.
Mr John Ryman who is the Labour MP for
Blyth, has written to Mrs Thatcher
warnang of the serious threat to public
health a water sprike would posd.
He claims that a national water strike
is now i-lhn-nt following the rejection
by 52,000 water workers of the final
pay offer.
Leders of the four unions involfd@ meet
on Wednesday to consider their next
move.
Newsreel continues in a moment...