PASSENGERS MUTINY

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28792, 13 January 1959, Page 7

PASSENGERS MUTINY

Refusal To Board Bus

(N.Z. Press Association —Copi/ripht) LONDON, January 10. Mutiny among passengers on the London Underground is spreading, according to the “Daily Sketch.”

The mutiny among sections of the country’s public transport users has now spread to the north where passengers at West Hartlepool, in County Durham, had refused to board a bus because it was "revoltingly grubby." The angry passengers at West Hartlepool got a clean bus because of their effective protest. In London, the rush of sit-down strikes by tube users resulted in the calling of a special press conference by London Transport authorities yesterday. Travellers were warned that if they persisted .in staying on tubes when -told to get off because of transport dislocations, the trains might be shunted into sidings—and perhaps left there for “some time.” Recently several trains on the underground system have been held up because travellers refused to leave the trains and just “sat tight." . A Harley-Street psychiatrist said that the reason for the sit-down strikes was “a revolt against officialdom and a rebellion against enforced acceptance.”