WHEN RAIL GUARDS at Lincoln struck two had them back at work with little gain.
The 54 guards came out against the tearing up of the March to Spalding branch line. The NUR instructed guards to boycott trains through Lincoln could have spread quickly.
It could have been a shot across the bows of the BRB who plan to tear up closed branch IWO OLICI lines Sheffield/Wath Glasgow to Kilmacolm via Paisley Canal.
of the union succeeding Sidney light to having got only a the no track next ten the Cowley deal. ulmitments managerabbits face of members management. With Board general approaching they worry that industrial action will cost Labour votes. But it is the members who pay in lost jobs hardly a vote catcner lor Labour• Their neutral attitude on against closure does not give conworkshop members facing closure.
addition to Horwich, Shildon and Temple Mills Swinthree worksnops al don, Glasgow and Derby al C under immediate threat.
leaders now wedded incomes policy aressed as the new economic assessment. The Boare must now oc flore confident they can drive through under If serious about winning the election it must come out on the side of working people not the City, banks and proThat means aban titeers. doning wage control, Serpell, the Transport Bill.
means. a commitment to invest and electrify the network, re-open closed lines and restore wage values.
than policy pledges to roll back Serpell and last year's McCarthy type pay deals.
United and national inShildon workers on the march dustrial action is called for.
This means ending the separation opposition workshop closures. It means a rolling programme of mounting united national action.
Guerrilla action by one section of the membership at a time is nonselse will. the confidence of the vast membership shaken by . the betrayals last year.
A national march, rally and parliamentary lobby have been called for Wednesday against the workshop closures.
From this march a date should be set for the first of a series of one, then two dav national stoppages ol the whole network to force Board to uncondiLEC tionally withoraw closure programme.
If BR Concede, then the time will be right to re-cement the unity of the rank and file for the union to take all out action in defence of jobs and for a basic living wage.
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weeks ago, the National Union of Railwaymen acted quickly to make the strike official. But within seven days a 'truce' deal with the British Railway
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