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fighting against the demands to give minutes.

'productivity' massacre of jobs and conditions.

The NUR climbdown arter t aays or strike action has encouraged the Tories and the Board. The demands they are making for an end to the strike are the same as those imposed the after the 1926 general strike defeat.

Today ASLEF fights alone. it the Board wins, it will turn its guns on the other rai unions. Tories and their friends in Fleet Street as train drivers take all-out industrial action. ASLEF are Rail Board's up the eight hour day and operate, instead, shifts from 7 to 9 hours and 45 They are intent on smashing ASLEF as a union to win this and the string of other measures which will result in a What is needed is a powerful united voice from all Talworkes TON drivers guards, COLICCLOLS engineers - for a 12 per cent wage rise and firm opposition to all productivity strings.

Sid Weighell's policy of appeasement disaster for his members.

The Board's response to reasonable approach is to tear up the protection of earnings agreement and lay NUR members off without pay. Refusal alongside ASLEF can only be interpreted as conavance WILD Tory union busting plans. Tories And when the Tories set out to destroy a major industrial union, then the TUC must act. Len Mur.

must stop playing reteree and start using the stass to defeat the Tories. strength the working The health workers, the steel workers, and the miners are also coming Tories. The health strikes the 19, 20, July should be a focus for the widest possible action against the Tory policies of austerity and job loss. War Thatcher believes that 'the Falklands Factor' is a new major force in British politics But 'the Falklands Factor' is the cowardice of the labour leadership. Their refusal to oppose the war against Argentina is mirrored their refusal to fight against the war being waged by the Tories on the working class at home.

They must be forced to act. Throughout Britain rank and tile workers are standing up to the Tory attacks. Thatcher's appeal ASLEF members to scab and to 'put his family, his comrades and his country, first' by continuing to work must be turnec on its head.