Calling all Tories. Why do you Tory?

bluwes said:
My dad was a train diver and a union member of the NUR. I was born in 1955. He told me this story just before he died and explained to me why he had never voted Labour. Just around the time I was born the NUR called yet another strike, several of which he had supported. There was no strike pay available so with a brand new baby to feed and no money coming in he had a decision to make, do I support the strike or do I feed my family. He decided he would go into work as he believed his family came first . We lived in a Railway house at the time so certain people knew the address. The house was then subjected to abuse and violence with grown men throwing bricks through the house windows with my dad at work and me as a new born child and my mother being alone in the house alone.

Vote Labour, Fuck you,
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I don't want to sound picky but the NUR didn't strike in 1955. ASLEF did. Strikes post WW2 were very rare and the NUR hadn't been on strike since the General Strike of 1926 and before that it was 1919.

Of course there is no excuse whatsoever for how your family were treated.
 
Rascal said:
I don't want to sound picky but the NUR didn't strike in 1955. ASLEF did. Strikes post WW2 were very rare and the NUR hadn't been on strike since the General Strike of 1926 and before that it was 1919.

Of course there is no excuse whatsoever for how your family were treated.
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Why do you think this militant type action happens though mate? @bluwes experiences aren’t a one off.


“Pickets mark out the class line, but they must hold out at least the potential that we are actually trying to persuade or convince workers not to cross that line”.

Why do workers turn against their fellow workers? What is the psychology of it all? Is it the talk of “class war” and struggle that rouses the anger inside them? Genuine questions

Obviously we have The Miners strike and their strikebreakers are still despised and I can understand that legacy in the sense of the hardship that many families had to endure (due in no small part to shit union leadership I may add but different topic) and how that hardship was all for nowt but the intimidation was there from the start.
 
metalblue said:
Why do you think this militant type action happens though mate? @bluwes experiences aren’t a one off.


“Pickets mark out the class line, but they must hold out at least the potential that we are actually trying to persuade or convince workers not to cross that line”.

Why do workers turn against their fellow workers? What is the psychology of it all? Is it the talk of “class war” and struggle that rouses the anger inside them? Genuine questions

Obviously we have The Miners strike and their strikebreakers are still despised and I can understand that legacy in the sense of the hardship that many families had to endure (due in no small part to shit union leadership I may add but different topic) and how that hardship was all for nowt but the intimidation was there from the start.
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The very same posters on this thread, who once said scabs deserve everything they get are suddenly saying they didn’t deserve it when it’s a personal account, funny eh.
 
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