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Support the train drivers against

· Socialist Challenge No. 228, 14 January 1982 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 314 words

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THE fight of the train drivers should be supported by the novenea workers they are resisting the oftensive of the employers and the Tories by fighting to maintain their 8 hour day. If the workers and others co-ordinated their action with the train drivers, the anti-union offensive of the Tories could be thrown back.

Miners once again are threatened with pit closures if they insist on a decent wage. told that the 'bad weather' means that a new round of plant and job destruction is now necessary.

But the Rail Board must take the biscuit for hypocrisy. trumpetea in tne press ads as a real Ilprovement in working Perhaps they have in mind the fact that drivers will be forced to work as many as 15 days without a break.

the name of 'efficiency' the Rail Board want to: * Destroy drivers' social life * Undermine sarery ....for a wage increase which will not keep pace with inflation.

standing firm provements, the train drivers are fighting for all railworkers.

Ford and BL workers who have had similar 'efficiency' measures stuffed down their throats. They are fighting for all workers because the banner of 'efficiency' is that raised by all the bosses who are utilising mass unemployment to dramatically in. crease their own profits at our expense.

The miners have voted for strike action. Steelworkers have decided on an overtime ban from early February. not be allowed to slice us up like so many pieces of salami. The strength of the Triple Alliance of which all these part is enough to turn out Thatcher. The train drivers cannot be left to fight alone.

whole labour Like other groups of mineworkers, steel Steelworkers are being Their barbaric proposal is conditions'. against such imThey are fighting for Thatcher must workers are a

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