The Chinese entrepreneurial tradition encourages the more capable individuals to “xia hai” (leap into the sea of business) as street traders or running food stalls.Pessimists say there are just too many people who need to find proper jobs, and that many big loss-makers are in remote areas where alternative work is not available. The government is very worried, because disgruntled workers are increasingly letting their feelings be known. The past two years have seen a growing number of strikes and riots by people who have lost their jobs or have not received salaries. In Sichuan province earlier this year, 20,000 unpaid textile workers staged a demonstration in Nanchong, one of the largest displays of anger so far.. Some deft semantic manoeuvring will be on show as the Communist Party tiptoes around the reality that public ownership will no longer be the dominant force in the economy. Over-manning is such that probably one-third of these factory workers are not needed, and will no longer be wanted by managers who know their factories must sink or swim.

He said trains should be halted until the incident had been properly dealt with.Current procedures were “inhuman and obscene”, he said, and it was dangerous to subject people to such experiences.Replying to Mr Adams’ criticisms, a Railtrack spokesman said: “We are reviewing how to handle these situations. Where there are delays financial penalties have to be paid either by Railtrack or the train operating company, depending on which was responsible for the delay.Mr Adams said the union would be demanding changes to the industry’s rule book which would stop railway workers and customers from seeing such “offensive gruesome scenes”. “Initially our driver was told to pass over the incident with extreme caution, but then a Railtrack official instructed him to hurry up and get past the scene as quickly as possible.”They allowed no dignity whatsoever to the poor soul who had been killed. They showed no regard for the trauma they were causing to everyone who saw these appalling sights. The whole incident was an absolute disgrace.”The union contends that the drive for profits in the privatised rail industry has led to greater pressure on drivers to pass over bodies. It is no way to treat to treat the travelling public, train drivers or other railway employees.”Mr Adams said that the express had been halted for some time at a signal outside the station and that there had been ample time for the body to be covered up. There was one limb on the platform.”It is frankly just too revolting to go into all the details of what was seen by the passengers and crew on the train.

He said his members had experienced two similar cases recently where they had been told to pass over bodies.The most recent and most horrific incident happened on 13 August when the Euston-to-London express was ordered to proceed through Harrow and Wealdstone station after an earlier train had struck someone who jumped off the platform.Mr Adams said: “Approaching the end of the platform, our driver saw that most of the person’s body was still on the track and the platform, not even covered up. The driver has since suffered trauma and yesterday his trade union said it would take its protest to John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister, with special responsibility for transport.
Lew Adams, general secretary of the train drivers’ union Aslef, told the delegates at the TUC Congress in Brighton that he would be renewing his demand for a thorough review of procedures during such incidents. He was also critical of Sir Frank Roberts, a Foreign Office official who did not even pass on to ministers a Nazi approach to avert war.Mr Clark said yesterday that at that juncture, in 1939, it was madness to declare war on Germany. “To put an army into Europe against the Wehrmacht was just suicide; it was mad.” The war had only been won because of a totally unpredictable chain of events, he said.. Railtrack was accused of callousness after a horrified train driver was forced to take his express past a mutilated body. If Baldwin had really wanted, he could have kept Edward on the throne.”Mr Clark said yesterday: “The Tory party connived at this concept that the monarchy is disposable – because they regarded Edward VIII as a bloody nuisance.” But he suggested that the breach of the hereditary principle perpetrated in 1936 was being repeated with the curious endorsement of the current monarch, with her acceptance of Labour plans for reform of the House of Lords.Mr Clark says that Hitler and the pre-war Tories had much in common: both being “brutal and anti-Semitic”.