CEYLON BUS WORKERS STRIKE
COLOMBO, Jan. 25 -- A virtually total strike of bus workers is on. "The government, determined to break the strike, has manned a skeleton service with foremen, military drivers and a few scabs.
The strike is led by union leaders who belong to the Lanka Sanka Samaja party (Ceylonese section of the Fourth International), the Communist party and the MEP (United Popular Front, a nationalist split off from the LSSP, headed by Philip and Robert Goonawardena).