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...episode was brief but embarrassing. Leaders of the British National Union of Railwaymen last week called a strike against London Regional Transport. LRT runs the city's underground subway system, on which about 2 million passengers daily depend. Most of the transit union's 15,000 members, however, cavalierly dismissed the action, and more than 75% of the city's trains ran on schedule. The strike was abandoned after just eleven hours, a remarkable event in a country where strikes were once as traditional as afternoon...
LONDON_Leaders of Britain's National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) called off a day-old national rail strike yesterday after their stoppage brought transport chaos to London, already gripped by a week-old-subway shutdown...
...country's rail system suffers from other problems besides guerrillas. Last week railwaymen began returning to work after a seven-day strike that cost the country $14.8 million in export earnings. Zimbabwe also lacks locomotives, although that problem should ease some what in the months ahead. South Africa began returning 26 of its engines that it withdrew from the country last year, and 60 more new locomotives, bought from the U.S. and elsewhere, are due in March...
...National Union of Railwaymen agreed to stop movement of steel stocks on British railroads and in ports--including normal imports to private firms--to keep them from being diverted to customers of British Steel Corp...
...closing ranks as they had not done for years. Pledging his allegiance to Labor, Moss Evans, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, said that "working with the Tories would be like running a cross-country race barefoot." Sidney Weighell, head of the National Union of Railwaymen, warned that if the Tories win, "I'll tell the lads to stick their noses in the trough...