{"id":156546,"date":"2020-08-15T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/15\/rmt-salutes-worker-who-overturned-racist-recruitment-at-euston-station\/"},"modified":"2020-08-15T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T13:55:11","slug":"rmt-salutes-worker-who-overturned-racist-recruitment-at-euston-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=156546","title":{"rendered":"RMT salutes worker who overturned racist recruitment at Euston station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rail union praises \u2018brave actions\u2019 of Dominica-born Asquith Xavier, who overturned 1960s colour barUnion leaders have praised the \u201cbrave actions\u201d of a railway worker who overturned a racist recruitment policy in the 1960s.The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) marked the 54th anniversary of the breaking of the colour bar at London\u2019s Euston station by pledging to continue its campaign against racism. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/15\/union-leaders-remember\" target=\"_blank\">RMT salutes worker who overturned racist recruitment at Euston station<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rail union praises \u2018brave actions\u2019 of Dominica-born Asquith Xavier, who overturned 1960s colour barUnion leaders have praised the \u201cbrave actions\u201d of a railway worker who overturned a racist recruitment policy in the 1960s.The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) marked the 54th anniversary of the breaking of the colour bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}