ernment is uniting against the rail workers. Wilson dragged the NUR leaders to Downing Street last Saturday night to make one thing clear: that his hard-line policy of making the workers pay for the WEEKLY Foot joined in Wilson's witch-hunt.
For the membership of the NUR, victory in this struggle - though the increase they are going for is only an other f2 over the top of the tribunal's solid base on which links can be offer - will strengthen their determination to fight both to defend living standards and against the onslaught on jobs which British Rail is preparing. Although the last national strike was almost fifty years ago, the traditions of the union and memories of the Triple Alliance with the transport workers and miners are still strong.
Hesitations about striking for such a small rise are now giving way to a solid determination not to be beaten into the dust by the Government. economic crisis will find its next victim in the rail workers. The next day so-called 'left Michael Mass involvement of rail workers through the strike committees, mass meetings and picketing will lay the forged with other workers. Shop stewards committees, trade union branches, the Labour Party and the left organisations should establish support committees in every area.
Benn and the Labour lefts are serious about fighting Wilson's Tory policies. they must denounce his confrontation moves, demand immediate setRED WEEKLY CANT tlement on the rail workers terms, ar campaign up and down the country support of the rail workers.
Wilson knows the coming battle is one he cannot afford to lose. A suc cessful strike would be the last nail in the coffin of the already defunct Social Contract Mark 1 and prepare the way for struggles against Social Contract Mark 2. If the rail workers win, we all win.
James Hurst