THE Joint Tanzania Zambia Railway (Tazara) Industrial Council meeting which was scheduled to take place in Dar-es- Salaam, Tanzania today to resolve the on-going stand off between Tazara management and employees has been put off until workers first call off their strike.

And Tazara management at the railway company's Zambia regional office in Mpika has locked out all unionised workers who were yesterday morning gathered outside the offices.

And the Workers Union of Tazara, Zambia has made a passionate appeal to Government to move in and help resolve the problems affecting employees at the railway firm.

WUTAZ general secretary Promise Nyirenda confirmed to ZANIS in Kasama in a telephone interview yesterday that management had cancelled the Joint Tazara Industrial Council demanding that workers must first return to work before any initiative to resolve the impasse could proceed.-ZANIS