The outrageous attacks on railworkers by the Sun newspaper has helped highlight the disgraceful priorities of Tory Britain. The Sun chose slander railworkers in the week it was revealed that:
* 3,070,621 people were officially out work: one in eight of the workforce * Dick Giordano, managing director of BOC International, had salary raised by more than £200,000 to nearly f1/2m a year. For this he only works months. The rest of the time he spends in the A company spokesperson tempted to justify this income explaining Support drivers is arowing. So the Sun is attempting to divert attention the real issues with a technique pionered by propagandist Josef Goebbels: the bigger the lie the better.
The life of Riley that railworkers are supposed to lead is a far cry from the realities of the job. Most people are in bed sleeping the unearthly hours when drivers are travelling long distances leven in the coldest spells | to get to work, with no public transport available.
The responsibilities are great, but the job is dangerous and accidents are often fatal. Railworkers work an of 54½ overced Dick Giordano, boss of BOC gets £200,000 salary increase to £477,100 PAPER THEY Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, sixth Duke of Westminster. Never done a days work. see p4, 5 & 6