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from Alan Rooney The East Yorkshire busmen and women returned to work Sunday last week on the advice of the bus section officials of the TGWU, Allan Thompson and Larry Smith, who had come up from the union's London headquarters, Although @ majority of the workers took national TGWU advice to return, a substantial number walked out of the meeting with the officials, in protest over what they regarded as a sell-out. The terms of the settlement certainly favour the #YMS and British "lectric Traction. It seems that Thompson and Smith had failed to see that the workers would have stayed out suntil past Christmas if they had had the right lead from their union at national level, This lead failed to come ~ anparently Thompson and Smith failed to see the national issues involved in the strike, The management saw the importance of the issues involved in the strike, and Carling of BET and EYMS went out of his way to say at a specially convened press conference on December 6 that other private bus interests told him to out against the EYMS strikers as a "matter of principle", The pamphlet, No Bus Today warned about this. The Hull bus officials of the TGWU have been forced to admit that feeling of the EYMS workers is still running high. As one of them pointed out, the decision to end the strike was by no means unanimous. This is very true, The leader of the strike committee is dissatisfied with the terms of the return to work which the national bus section leaders of the TGWU recommended The line of argument of No Bus Today is having a positive impact among the EYMS still, The workers are still arguing their case and the strike committee is keeping up its contacts with the Hull Workers’ Committee, The battle is by no means over, Editorial note: Although the strike is over printing bills and other expenses will have to be paid, Any reader having money for copies of No Bus Today or any donation towards the strike fund should send it as a matter of -urge"cy to: The Strike Committee, Busmen's Dispute, Bevin House, Hull,