'Shock troops to finish off unions'
8th December 1984, Page 67
8th December 1984
Page 67
Page 67, 8th December 1984
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"PATRIOTIC" hauliers are "to be enlisted in the Thatcherite campaign for final victory over organised labour in Britain," says a correspondent to The Guardian, who signs himself A. M. Hodbod.
He takes a hearty swipe at tipper operators running vehicles "imported from economies much better off than our own" and employing a "shock force of macho nonunion drivers" to carry "a gigantic tonnage of imported coal." They will, he declares, all be engaged in a great tax fiddle and the police will condone wholesale law-breaking.
Mr Hodbod should ponder the reasons why the economies of countries from which Britain imports lorries are better than ours. It would be interesting, too, to know what he thinks about the transfer of coal to British Waterways.