Suspended Kings Cross Guards lobby Rail House last Tuesday No matter how carefulcentre of the campaign by British Rail management to harass and intimidate the workforce, and to break union solidarity by provocative attacks. Guards at Glasgow Central were locked out after refusing the imposition of driver only operation (DOO). Wher they were sacked, the guards at Queens Street and on the North Clyde line signalled their voting intentions by staging a 24-hour stoppage last Tuesday. to try to disrupt the ballot: first the sackings, then a massive campaign of propaganda and lies, with fullpage ads in every local paper in the West of Scotland capped on Thursday Strathelyde's rail network by closing five lines if the guards take action. workers has already scotched management's plans to advertise sacked guards jobs in the national dailies.
(stewards' told Socialist Action of the mood of determination in the face of these attacks.
The threat to close the five lines is just another example of the intimidatory tacRail management went to extraordinary lengths by the threat to slash Solidarity SOGAT disciplinary attacks, our members wouldn't feel they were really fighting. Instead what we need is all-out strike.
There isn't comwe can get. The British Rail Board have nc choice either. In order to do what they want with the industry, they need smash the union. No com Monde is one We would UL C members high level of pressure on the executive to ensure all out action The TUC should be lobbied when il meets, to maximise support there, ana a strong NUR lobby should make links with everyone else in struggle, especially the Here in Glasgow in the Labour Party we have to confront asgracclu role Strathclyde regional council who have taken management's side.
parties and Constituenci branches should send resoluțions to the regional council to demand it gives unconditional support for the railworkers.
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JOHN BARRIE secretary of the guards LDC committee) at Glasgow Queens Street