union solidarity International SOUTH AFRICA transport bosses made important In June this year South Africa's struggle to defend their trade railworkers involved in a concessions to striking local response so the next job for us was to: What is Ran Agaiut Apartherd and toe members. We aimed for something not too railworkers who wanted to gor others more become a focal point we had to have morr where we would try to rally more railway make it a national campaign among NUK became clear to us that if it was going to So arrangements were made for us to When it was launched we got a good of a link with railway workers in South ambitious -- a June 28 demonstration workers than had ever attended an AA demo before. Bur in the meantime it RAA was set up last yoar by involved in anti-apartheid work: Africa than we did at that time. was it set uti! GR: BH:
they beat their workers as it is. Against this appeared on the hank. One worker went to their repression which means something — on strike, after a month there were 19,000 tell you a story that was told to me to give union attempted to take up the case of the After a week then were 7,000 workers: membership is in the Transvaal area. F'I| permanent way workers were working on issue of SARHWU recognition. When the workers on strike from a membership of the side of a track when all these armec you an idea of how it grew. A group of background, the strike also became an sacked worker they were told that they white men with guns, pistois and dogs about 22-23.000. The core of their didn't represent anybody. what support they could. Below, (NUR) had already established a National Union of Railwaymen with their comrades and offer South Africa to make contact Apartheid (RAA) and in May two of their number went to BRIAN HERON talks to Members of the British group called Rail Against