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Socialist Challenge No. 229, 21 January 1982 · p. 1 of the scan · 335 words

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RAILWORKERS are introduction hold them back.

Sid Wighell's appeal to the arbitration service, ACAS is a treacherous atlempt to stab le aspute in the back. This is little wonder since he has agreed all BR's bob-cuting proposals which members are now showing they do not accept.

ACAS cooked up the present deal last August after it became clear that a few months' breathing space would allow BR to take on the drivers alone.

boss, Pat Lowry, has as much interest in railworkers as he showed in British Leyland, wiel ne was lyncnael cawardes' personic Mallager.

There has been 100 per support ASLEF membership for all the actions called by the executive and massive pressure is building up for all-out action.

meeting of Illass drivers in the Midlands last weekend, maline stations and depots attended by ASLEF soonsored Les Huck field called for all-out action. Drivers Model Resolution Pass this model resolution in your trade union or Labour Party branch. "This branch fully supports the railworkers' fight for wages and against job loss. It calls on the naional executive to give the financial and practical solidarity necessary to the railworkers in order to bring this dispute to a rapid and successful concluSION boised to win the first. round against British Rail's attempt to destroy flexible rostering. railworkers struck together, nothing would the Southern and Midlands are vuclalllz a which is cutting services from Euston by 40 per cent.

Guards throughout the have Deen supporting the drivers. Sid Weighell has been bombarded with demands for solidarity strike action and faces motions censure tor his role in the dispute so far.

More militant main line stations like Kings Cross, wnere boln ADLer and NUR members are SunKe action, can . play a big role in coPressure for all-out action he new rail Broad Let should add its weight to

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38,000 jobs and massively increase productivity at the expence of railworkers. Even BR has ad- mitted that 4,000 drivers' jobs will go after the

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