ON 26 April the first stage of London Transport's 'reorganisation' of buses took place. Despite claims by management that i mable service, i more reliable service, represents a cut in the target for total bus miles from 211 million to 193 million, MARTIN EADY reports.
The next stage of reorgamisation due to he introduced In October will reduce the service even further. In response to this, and pressure from the Campaign to Improve London Transport, the official leadership was forced to call a series O1 BE Sopp have now been suspended while TELS TAKE PION UNDERGROUND Meanwhile, fares are set to increase again in June, and a plan. cuts underground is to appear soon.
It is in the light of all this that the Campaign to London Transport 15 organis ing a lobby of the GIC OD Tuesday 16 May from 5-6pm as the first step in reversing the safeguarding Jobs, reducing fares. The aims of the lobby are to gain publicity ant begin to mobilise workers and passengers in defence of their transport services.
The next steps must be to SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 11 May 1978 page 6 shOW how workers passengers by their own activuly can take control of fare and service levels, and to develop a workers" and passengers" plan for London Transport, Such a plan would be a powerful weapon to counterpose to the Tories plan to make LT pay its owil way. MCLELL completely incompatible with an adequate transport service.
ROUTE 256 The campaign of Waltham Forest Trades Council against withdrawal of route 256 is an excellent exampie to follow, involving a massive leafletting campaien residential areas served by the SOLIC These Socialist Chailenge porters are urged to mobilise for the lobby, and for the next the BILLULL which is on Tuesday 24 May a 1.30pmin Unity House, Euston Improve Hemel Hempstead. promises lo bring to bring the biggest strike in the NUD's history response to Tbomson's attempt to inflict a defeat on the journalists in order to pave the and took solidarity support of journalists, When journalists throughout the Thomson regional group UTERULI the Hemel being wete handed out like confetti.
The printing facilities are provided by Transport Union, which has I told its menbers not to cross This ting themselves to the politica Press group, where journalists Warfard have been Forced to Acion. and strike in order to gain full back pay on a national settlement.
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