What railworkers told Socialist Challenge MIDNIGHT on Saturday night at Manchester's Piccadilly railway Sld~ tion. Nothing was moving DUNCAN EDWARDES and MOND O'NEILL spoke to NUR members on duty - BRIAN GORDON LEADING RAILMAN HAYES. 'A lot of NUR members fully support ASLEF. A stand has colo pe made somewacre. ll looks akel me orves cool. then no-one will. . we are with them because a lot of what the NUR has the dies sticking to their His a cuts l sella!
westone nave cone ol with the drivers in the first place. Now that the NUR has accepted ostering we are all out of pocket. NUR leadership accepicu ll. OUT une guards lisagreed You ask us what the NUR should should strike union tor al rauway workers. Weighell should resign and Buckton should over.
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way could do SHOW But ASLEF is not realiv fighting the Board, ment.
wInS ASLEF acceols rostering. Ur iney blame Ine strike on the unions. claim they've work and make tuls allyway They are trying to drive a weare Derween ALer ana NUR. we've not got to le that happen because we are all money the Falklands easy enough ny can't lne ail? Thatcher has made a l of gains from the Falklands but she's riding for a fall. It'll be like Churchill after the Second World War. He thought He's jul rool is H0 coul 11S1 a cooterer should lead the Labour Party. He's the only one who opens his mouth.
If they try sacking a lot of onvers they'll have a general reson " unis strike strike on their hands. usec ov the coveranear to further its own anti-trade union ends ana to attack social services. The mood drivers really determined. Peter • Parker will have to sack us all beins there under faxi before there will ble rostering ASLEF.
We have absolute conNothing moved at Kings Cross need is more streak PETER GUNN, chairman of the Manchester joint branches of ASLEF I think they're using scare tactics against us. I he threatenec to be a long dispute are all beup in the press to our picker time No one ha.
crossed think attitudes will harden as it goes on.
So we'll be looking tor support we're concentrang on une Nun. are trying to use the N We've got to stop happening. tried every was to get • al us. ror exalloc putting up rosters depots that look really good we know they won't stas that way. If we accept flexible the orerorative amend tnem think they are planning to cut the NUR shouldn't have called off their strike and we should be at it together. There is a general feeling that Sid Weighell cooked up the NUR strike and gọt it called off in a conspiracy with the Board to smash We are prepared for a The staff by a half. We want olid, short, sharp strik Birmingham "There is no chance of us ever ace indicroxi flexible I Uselle The wart oBe We will stay out for as long a it takehile every other major Hallul Investit rail, Ln1S disastrous Tory government seems determined to destroy our industry. It is refusing rovide the cash to replace ol high technology locomouves and track'.
GEOFF, NUR, Birmingham oppery sia weignell Is le telling the passive 'One man trains, open stamons. chances in nours. con wages that mean we have to work sever make living, plus the loss of clean. own proposals. But by Thursday they had made a complete about face — undoubtedly Burchil They after obliterating our union.
We are very heartened by the support that has jing, goods delivery and can¡teen jobs that have been will be hived off to Parker's Tory friends. • When thev reallv find ou about the jobs situation and our negotiating strength they have nell with Weighell's sell doesn't nave to work 10r oul wages and under our condi the membership wil will decimate traditional right wing bureaucrals betrayed us once too often. WIll Have "This latest decision to go back McCarthy, can lea only more humiliation for slipper hope peerage makes all worth while for nim Whatever he expects to gain is beyond me.
flus WORK Weighell and his chums and democratise the union, at all Our best hope is an im. mediate revolt on the result of IC OUT allu Torming or a lola Ske con mittee with ASLEF. We must knees. should picketing whatever it takes This is a tremendous boost. The Board posted notices announcing Ford Dagenham's go 'over to road transport. This little bit of intimidation will now bite Lne OusL Arthur Scargill's statement that no coal that norPress lies THE TORY PRESS, as we all know, has great respect for the truth. This week it is trumpeting the number of trains that are running as part of its effort to break the traindrivers' strike. But how much regard is paid to the real facts was revealed last week in their; reporting of the NUR strike. "Trains are running on most lines in the East Midlands, anti-trade Evening Post at the height of the strike of the NUR last week socialls calende reporters found out a difon the picket lines at the East Midlands sta No trains were operating For notmenam and unt strike was solid among Pickets felt that money saved by force. Unity is now key and Albert Booth. They are aptly called 'shadow They should come out of the dark tun nel which they hiding and stand up for basic trade union rights How else do they expect to be able lo win the next and in view of this the 5 pe cent offered by British Rail strike became KNOWIN wanted it to continue.
They refused to return tr work when the Rail area manage esume their duties before tl strike otticially endea tues the NUR Not LITt secretary sina, me are not set mg ou and district branch said job given up now i a job lost for youth.
In their own strike, NUR pickets turned out in
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