harassment of workers carrying out union policy and refusing to move coal.
hour strike action this Thursday coming.
In the Eastern region the depots are Sheffield Midland, Doncaster, Worksop, , Tinsley, Barrow Hill Shirebrook. the London-Midland region they Toton, Derby, Nottingham, West Houses and Coalville.
hor us at Coalvile this decision was a tremendous They are asking let down. the depots who have suffered the most victimisation from management to take action.
Most of these mentioned are freight-only depots war work in de cozineros. We were hoping that they would call oul lne 01g London stations, where we Have dot or suoDorL What we wanted was a Hallullal sulike. at the least a 24 hour national strike. Some members of the excommullee were pushing at the Federation meeting tor such action But after a big battle between the right and the left, the action was reduced selective, Fi chulal 24 hour action.
There's been a lot oI talk since then from the THE RAIL FEDERATION last Tuesday decided in principle to take some sort of strike action on the Midland and Eastern regions in protest at the The details were decided by a sub-committee of the Federation which met the next morning. The outcome was that 11 depots were selected for 24 Board to the press sayıng that they'll be able to sit down with the Federation and resolve things round Ine labie.
Coalville NUM When the Federation does sit down and talk out branch at Coalville wants the following four points conceeded before the threat of action is lifted: • first, no movement of coal trains • second for the right of Coalville workers to sigr on and be given alternative work more scab labour at Coalville • fourth victimisation and harassment and reinstatement of the Coalville signalman who been moved Alrewas box.
Incidentally, this is the signalman who was initialclassified as 'mentally unstable' for relusing ic let coal move, demoted to a position as Now he's working on a where there are coal trains running, there is no question being raised about his mental stability.
This is disgusting. Now some lads at Coalville have got a new badge saying if you support the miners get some th lerapy!
Nothing less than these four points will satisfy the workers they think they are going to negotiate any kind threat without those four DO TILS being concecee they will find themselves Haville lo collitoll not oll ly Coalville NUR but all those railworkers who have been implementing the boycott of coal since the miners' strike began.
The NUR leaders work for us. We pay their Wares They're not doing their job and giving us the backing we deserve at the present time.
I have circulated most branches with a persona letter and all ASL LEF NUR district councils have received a direct call to their members to support the action on Thursday.
At the time of writing we did not know which depots would be called out by the Federation. government will walk the We realise that over railway workers if we don't support the miners. If pits close jobs on the railways will be directly aftected.
If the secondary action was collapse through lack of support, the miners in the minority strike areas such as cecester wone be in great difficulty.
Railway workers have been number one in giving support to the miners. Our fate IS interlocked with theirs.
If the government is allowed to establish the principle of closing pits on purely economic grounds the same arguments would be applied to most railway depots and most passenger The government SCIVICeS.
MUSl DOL be allowed establish that principle. fit