[Continued from from the working class. But Weighell…]
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Continued from from the working class. But Weighell, petrified at the prospect of launching a real fight, within 24 hours had written an abject letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons, offering his "humble apologies for this discourtesy"
The real issue is not of course one of parliamentary manoeuvring - even Tory spokesmen are to be heard now promising to subsidise certain commuter lines as a "social service"!
The question is to prepare the organised power of the railwaymen and all other sections of workers for action in defence of jobs and conditions. Such action must direct towards kicking out Wilson and the trade union leaders who connive with him.
NOTHING Labour MPs must be called to account by the working class. The 'Lefts' have done nothing to remove Wilson. The NUR sponsored MPs have lifted not a finger to defend railwaymen.
Can NUR members allow such people as Gordon Bagier, MP for Sunderland South (and well-known supporter of extreme right wing regimes), or Michael O'Halloran of Islington North, « (TU) (whose riddled that eve them) t financia is high told by get out.