NUR pickets at Stratford in London during their two days of strike SMASH ASLEF! This is the rallying cry of the Weighell's 'let's be attack from the Socialist Challenge.
eight hour day.
tivity by the end of July.
one grade Alliance, well as the health workers.
Despite the the NUR membership The same is true of ASLEF.
stead 12 per cent with no strings. newspapers.
line.
This is because and truth is the first casualty.
Photo: MORNING STAR Thatcher, Rose and Parker -put down us if you think we're wrong!
THE national press, the telly, ing out all disastrous Tory government.
our will be we want ornel struggle for a workers why don't you -local rail Clubs.
3. Calling bakc the railworkers *Get messages of Socialist Challenge supporters in rail depots up and down the country. It has been written by railworker supporters of THE TORIES and BR are out to smash ASLEF They are threatening to sack all drivers and only allow them back if they agree to work the new rosters and give up the guaranteed They have also said that the same fate awaits NUR members if they do not agree to the other five items of 'producNow, as never before, there is a real need for united action by all railworkers to confront these threats.
In the course of one week we have seen both rail unions on strike fighting different parts of the same attack. Every grade is faced redundancies and no section of the workforce is now being offered a wage increase this year. This suits BR down to the ground. They have always been careful to atal a time. The attack on ASLEF is another step along that road.
If the rail unions were taking united action on the basis of 12 per cent with no strings they would be a powerful voice for unity with other workers facing similar attacks, who include the other two members of the Triple the miners and steel workers, as magnificent response from the annual general meeting called their strike off. NUR members have proved that they can stop the railways and have proved their willingness to fight.
Railworkers are actively seeking a united lead in their battle against the Tories. We must begin a campaign now in our respective union branches for a common rejection of all six items of 'productivity' and demand inWhy Railworkers Need IF YOU want to find out the truth about the crisis in rail, you won't find it in the daily They do everything they can to spread muck about workers and toe the Thatcher they speak for big business and they are owned by big business. Their journalists may be trade unionists, but they have no control over what they write -Socialist Challenge does the opposite. Our paper is for workers, to explain why they take action. and how disputes can be won. Unlike the other papers who print the war cries of • we are there to railworkers and other workers in dispute have to say. We are there to show that there is a socialist alternative to Toryism. So buy Socialist Challenge. Write to us. Phone in your comments and reports. Tell ana Int radio have started to launch their campaign in support of the Tories attempt to smash ASLEF. Socialist Challenge is out to do the exact opposite. We are pullthe stops to defeat [nIS Our supporters in the rail industry, in other workplaces and in the Labour Party and the Labour Party Young Socialists will be work ing flat out to win this fight. Week by week giving the real facts, discussing the tactics in the fight, and we will be ready to expose any sell-out manoeuvres workers to ioin us in the solution to the crisis and help us to sell Socialist Challenge So *Get your Labour Party or LPYS branch to pledge full support to the railworkers by:
1. Contacting local strike comminees 2. Organising solidarity tours to win support from the rail unions and other industries public meetings speakers from the rail unions and other industries 4. Demanding your MP gives full public sup 5. Passing resolutions calling on the NEC to trade union branch, shop stewards committee, Trades Council to send support, cuculate sheets, and help on the picket lines.
Socialist Challenge 9 July 1982