Railway Threat
The NUR executive has been forced into a strike threat not --as it claims—because it has exhausted all the forms of negotiation, but because it has exhausted the patience of its members. The executive knows that a strike, whether it suc- ceeds or fails, must have a destructive effect on the country's economy and on the transport system. But it is staking one ' last throw in the attempt to retain control of its membership, in the hope that the Government will be awed into giving way, as they were this time last year. But last year the Government were taken by surprise. Now, they know that to give in to the railwaymen would be construed as weakness. Unless some- body finds a • face-saving formula in the next few days, therefore, the NUR executive will find themselves in a most unc.imfcrfab:e posit'on. faced by a determined Government and an inert :singly hosti:e public.
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