“Two big factors restrict strikes. One is the unions’ small funds, which amount only to an average week’s wages to each man. The other is public opinion, which looms like a genie: the TUC knows well that strikes by public services, as by the London busmen in 1958, can make the genie scowl.”

(From Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson, 1926 – 2004)

John Lentell

18th July, 1970