driver out of 200 signed on and 15 guards out of 100.
In South Yorkshire the action was almost 100 per cent. Tommy Doyle, representative of his area on the executive the guards grades reported that both Sheffield passenger depot and Tinsley freight depot were there went radio apologising for the 'chaos' claiming that his workers were being intimidated'.
At itself, Mick Richmond a leader of the Dirty said that 'through the hours morale on the picket line at Lane was brilliant' On the line were local ASLEF NUR members joined by delegations from Bestcote of the rail link throughou the area but who have not been victimised so far.
'To a certain extent what happens next is up to management will they continue their campaign of harassment? We can't sit. Dack that the NCB and BRB Haven move that coal especially now that the weather is so bad with peo. ple talking about a winter '47 the CEGB worred about its fuel stocks To do this they've got to use trains not lorries 'National action which is the ultimate response we make We hope doesn't come to this, we stops its provocations now in all the freight depots throughout the area but we don't think this is really likely 'Of course if the BRB foreat to sue the unions for through with loss of revenue during the this will up the stakes. understand thai this threat itself the decision Stonebridge Park to come out last Thursday. The rail unions must respond vigorously to the use of courts on this question.'