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of further disputes.
The deferment IS nanoueve designed avoid an open confrontation will National Union of Railwaymen at this time. As the Sunday Times said on 6 June: 'If British Rail is to head off a country-wide confrontation it has to find a way placating Weighell so that pressure cal brought directly on ASLEF' Union representatives from the workshops meet Rail Fuesdarine management June and while the union officials will be relieved by the postponement they will be asked to co-operate THE KEY aspect of the Tories' programme for the rail industry is the selling off of its most of total The deferment engineering workshop closures should be seen in that light and should be set against reports that the cabinet is ready to back British Rail in the total closure of the rail network in the event by urging voluntary redun. they will also learn that the workshops results of an inquiry and orders.
The axe has just been lifted a few inches from their heads. *The rail Broad Left which met this weekend discussed the workshop issue and agreed prioritise propaganda campaign around it linking it to pay and producA London rally is planned with speakers from the workshop action committees, the unions in the Triple Alliance of the rail, steel and miners' unions and the Labour Party.
•Privatisation is a ke! political issue tor us said Rose Knight, a guard from London *the future of the workshops should depend not on export orders but upon the restocking of British Rail.
Meanwhile the board's derisory pay offer of five per cent from 6 September linked to productivity lie the table. railworkers including the workshop employees must campaign through the unions for a decent rise with no strings.
The NUR leadership must be told loud and clear inal nanonal strike acuor only way to • win and that through such ad tion the workshops and the communities that de pend on them will ultimately be saved