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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

SQUABBLING

Red Weekly No. 160, 22 July 1976 · pp. 3-4 of the scan · 167 words

The scan: rw-no160-jul-22-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 3 of the scan

Making up for any loss in his image of 'militancy', Weighell joined with the lefts in denouncing... not the attacks of the Labour Government, but the drivers' union ASLEF. ASLEF could have been a potential ally in the fight against the wages policy, but its opposition to the policy has been based on maintaining differentials for drivers and skilled men over the station porters, office workers and track workers organised The attempts of the NUR and ASLEF bureaucracy to channel the militancy amongst workers in both unions into inter-union squabbling ca can only effectively be challenged by fighting for pay awards which can unite all rail workers-demands for a flat rate increase coupled with protection against inflation (a sliding scale undancies in action, Weighell and ASLEF leader Buckton hold meetings with former BR chief Richard Marsh to present a 'united opposi tion' to the cuts.

The NUR talks of directing freight from road to rail, having a

page 4 of the scan

4 Right to Work/Theatre Red Weekly

← Weighell runs NUR off the tracksCuts and Councils →

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