IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Rail workers want brakes off for 14 May

Socialist Challenge No. 144, 24 April 1980 · p. 6 of the scan · 281 words

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page 6 of the scan

By A O'Callaghan, ASLEF Queen's Park PRESSURE is growing on the executives of the rail unions to make 14 May an official one-day strike.

Both Sid Weighell of the NUR and Moss Evans of the TGWU say they expect their members to turn out in large numbers for local protest •nowever. union has taken the lead in actually calling their members OUL.

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