WHO ARE they? They are the flock of vultures hovering over the nationalised industries. • The stock market speculators petitors. The uneconomic provincial lines would be closed completely and replaced with bus services. A seperate inter-city company established and freight would be leased out. Track maintenance would be con maid ounce ot tong stink and maintenance presently done engineering workshops.
dicated its intention to 'radical' approach.
Transport Act enables British Rail to the turn its subsidiaries into private companies and sell shares in them. Hotels and Hoverspeed have already been sold off and the Victoria to Gatwick Airport service is on the market. Ferries, freight and workshops are being prepared for the same treatment.
British Rail is carrying through ruthless productivity, job and wage attacks on workers in these areas in services; order to prepare a lean and pro fitable' package to sell on the open The National Union of Seamen has resisted this with the Sealink Ferry strike and a national threatened when