IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

CREED Workers Resist Telecoms Cuts

Red Weekly No. 188, 24 February 1977 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 258 words

The scan: rw-no188-feb-24-1977.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.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 2-3 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 2 of the scan

HIT There are four main areas where rail workers Hiving standards nave been hit:

Jobs: Only a few weeks ago rail vorkers were treated to British Chairman Peter Parker saying thai durina the next five vears 40.000 wi lose ineirloos ane inose seleci few who are chosen to remain in rapidly becoming job will have to work harder for the onwiece. iris certai that tre oron! of the iob loss will not fall in the managerial grades.

The number of people employed railways has 3 been cut by over (trom to 200,000) since the early 1960s and ine reware tor makine ine ralways more efficient during this period is La year for the Contract!

Money Wages: By August 1975 Tail workers were really doing something about their reputation assembly plant are being industry, were beino no one term solution campaign in defence of jobs. pattern of at the Brighton that is, their push to to mobilise forit What is SOUTOR TO TE between telecommunications one publicly owned corporation machine WaiCI ally while jobs

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intelligence operations in Britain wen exceed mulary. economie and commercial boundaries.

TInC Tall investigations has come from the mystery surrounding the attempt ic get rid of Phil Agee, the former CIA agent. Since it is well known that he specialises in CIA activities, which he has uncovered in such countries as Jamaica recently, it has been clear to the Defence Committee and indeed to a number or Mrs and trade union leaders that the CIA were benina ine deportations IN WEEKLY

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