under attack By R. Brooks, NUR Guard BR WORKSHOPS at Shildon, Co. Durham, and Horwich, Lancashire, 6,000 jobs throughout the country in all 12 BR workshops are threatened in the next 18 months.
snildon produced £800,000 of the £1.3 million profit of British are to be closed, and tinue unless the rail unions and stop the destruction i! what used to be the world's best NO JOB LOTS FIGHTING UNITY against Rail's closure plan is beginning to develop between the threatened workshops of Horwich, Shildon and Swindon. All three will attend mass parlia ment called for Tuesday 26 May.
The campaign in Horwich has taken off in a big way. Posters are appearing windows and car stickers and being ale duced. 10,000 leaflet being ildren put through doors. TrON local schools are Rail chiel Peter Parker asking him to reverse his decision It is their jobs which he is destroying.
BR is of course trydivide the cam. ina to paign by offering local talks, which the Town Councils were in vited. Dennis Green, deputy convenor, plained the works action committee boycott of this 'public relations exercise' on the grounds that 'it woul to get involved in talks level when the matter is being handled tionally.
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