SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Safety

Socialist Action No. 176, 11 December 1987 · p. 10 of the scan · 213 words

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page 10 of the scan

After the government London LOOK appointed a rag-bag ey appointed rag-bag capitalist biscuit manutacsuch like, accountants such WILd firm they have done, among other al cas cleaning and the lift and coralalulL progressing the system The cleaners looked like a collection of bloody tramps,' 1ralll commented to me a couple O Week. ago in a discus. sion about the worked privatised denners wander about the stations nowadays. The tacl the speaker also looks like a tramp was irrelevant. We knew what he meant:

ground Limited cuts back on staff in the operations, cleaning and maintenance departments, so they back on safety procedures more and more. Worry We used to have whole sets OI proccaule.

dealing safely with ferent Concues.

Many of these have now been revised.

The publicised cause of worrv was of course the introduction of one-person single-line tunnels. Imagine a fire on a train packed to the gunnels during the rush hour with 1000 passengers stuck down a hole in the ground.

But management been told and they will.

'We're not with anymore,' said "This lot didn't take time out to run a railway after making one They just look cuts.' hundred thouand passengers a day pass King CIUS underground station Like the system, simply was not designed to

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