A mass meeting of over 500 Kings Cross drivers and guards overwhelmingly decided to stand by their decision to black the newspapers. In accordance with their resolution, blacking would be maintained until such a time as the Sun, on its front page, made a retraction of the against train drivers.
The meeting had been demanded Judge Glidewell who made an order in favour of the Sun requiring the two traindríver officials at Kings Cross, steve Forey and John Caddywould, to recommend meeting the ending of the blacking action.
Both guards and drivers were fantastically militant and united. They were outraged at the use of courts only leading, but force them to say things By a Kings Cross Guard (not named to avoid prosecution).
Sun Group scurrillous accusations with which they did not af ee And all in the name treedom speech! Despite his statement, Steve Forey was able communicate his real feelings when he symbollically tore up a copy of the Sun The and Caddywould had to leave the meeting.
A debate then ensued. The 'freedom of the press' Issuc was resoivea wnen ll was pointed out that he vul Was 1USI "reporting'. It has been firmly suggested that the scabs had been given £10,000 sign their The Tabacanons. reporting was political. Murdoch, the Sun's boss, was using his ability to DTIH CLO C TO smash ASLEF. Only DCODIC vOLcu dauSE Connui the abion has.
action has spread other stations and depots, including Waterloo, Victoria and Doncaster.
The unity around this issue has reinforced the fight of nauworkers against the new rosterings.
Steve rorer Dollted out: 'The drivers are incensed by this legal action. They see it as an attempt to divert trom the issue which is that we want our 3 per cent, and we will not accept flexible rosterings. The struggle oll.