THE MOORGATE TRAGEDY - UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

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MONDAY WAS THE FIRST DAY of committal proceedings against the 14 pacifists charged under the Incitement to Disaffection Act for leafleting soldiers about the war in Ireland. This successful picket was supported by two Labour London Transport's reputation for the safest transport system in the world suffered a terrible blow last Friday 28 February.

The 8.37am tube from Drayton Park smashed through the buffers at Moorgate Station and crashed were killed.

London Transport's reputation in no way lessens the scale of this trag edy. It is urgent that the trade unions in the transport industry set up their own enquiry to find out:

WHY there are no trip mechanims" to automatically stop trains at Underground terminals, although there are trip mechanisms which Ingeer when a train goes past a sig: hal at red.

WHY these mechanisms were not fitted at terminals although they WEEKLY were fitted at the end of many London Transport sidings after a series of incidents when drivers crashed through buffers at Tooting and cisewhere in 1973.

WHY trains dating from 1938, like the crash train, are still in use.

Trade unionists at London Traninto a blind tunnel. Nearly 50 people sport maintenance works have said that delays between overhauls of trains have increased in recent years due to economy culs by London Transport and staff shortages beeause of pay restraint. The worst staff shortages are on the Northern Line where the train crashed, and the oldest trains run between Prayton Park and Moorgate Whatever the final outcome of investigations into this tragedy, the transport unions must ensure that there is now a massive infusion of capital into London Transport to improve safety and statfing levels. pay and hours. dence into a tape recorder. STOP POLITICAL E TRIALS PRE FREE SPEECH FOR FOR MPs, Jo Richardson (second right) and Maureen Colquhoun (right), and by the ING and other organisations. Cambridge students supporting the campaign organised a street play, while inside a doddering court clerk repeated evi

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