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Shipyard retreat

Socialist Press no. 172, 24 October 1979 · scan p. 11 · about 213 words

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WORKERS AT the Robb Caledon shipyard, who have been operating a ban on launching a Polish ship in their fight to stop the closure of the yard, last week voted to allow the launch to proceed.

The 1,100 workers have been given five weeks "breathing space" to improve productivity as a precondition for a vague promise to reprieve the yard.

Times... from back page. tially the most damaging to chapel strength and the most difficult to quantity. .

Whether 'no disruption' clauses hold still depends on the relative strength of the chapels.

The chapels-not the union leaders-have beaten off the worst effects of the attacks.

But nothing has been solved for the future and at no time during the shutdown has a coherent workers' challenge to the management been mounted on the offensive.

By not occupying the papers and challenging the right of capitalists to run papers in the bosses' interests, workers at the Times have ensured that their problems are all still ahead of them.

LOOK; WERE GOING TO HAVE TO DO OLD SOMETHING ABOUT ES THESE CUTS...

TOME DO WHAT?)

TOH I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN! YES WE SAW ALL THIS COMING.!. SINCE THATCHER WAS ELECTED, OUR EDUCATION DEPARTHENT HAS BEEN FLAT QUT, RUNNING SCHOOLS. SEMINARS, PRINTING CIRCULARS, AND NOW...

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