Scots strikers firm
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BLACKING RENT INDEED! IF IF I HEAR THE WORD PICKET WE'RE NOT CAREFUL, THEY AGAIN, ILL GO NUTS!. HELLO COULD ALL BE OUT ON STRIKE! MOSS-BOY ARE MY LADS Scottish steelworkers face the same problems as steelworkers in England and Wales-isolation by the trade union bureaucracy and strike breaking by the TGWU.
For weeks pickets from the massive Ravenscraig works at Motherwell have been picketing the ports and the steel stockholders in an effort to make the strike bite.
Several weeks ago they began picketing the main steel users. The Albion and Bathgate BL truck plants, Catarpillars and others.
At first they were armed, as were steel pickets in other parts of the country, with instrucGET OUT OF THE WAY, TOM! WE'VE GOT REAL PROBLEMS WITH THOSE B/L MEMBERS -WE MIGHT HAVE SOLD A 5% DEAL-BUT NEVER EDHARDES 92 PAGES OF STRINGS!
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FOR YOU tions from Moss Evans ordering TGWU lorry drivers not to cross the picket.
But, as with the pickets on the BL Cowley Body Plant, this was quickly changed to a fresh letter, which simply gave pickets the authority to stop lorries carrying raw steel.
Since then lorries have been rolling through the picket lines continuously.
This is in sharp contrast to the morale of the Scottish steelworkers who remain solid despite the betrayals of the Several thousand steelworkers are manning the picket lines throughout Scotland and there has been no hint of any 'back to work' move from the rank and file.
OH COME ON MOSS, THATS NOTHING NEW YOU'VE NEVER REALLY HAD CONTROL OF THAT MOB THINK OF ME - I'VE ¡JUST BEEN VOTED DOWN AGAIN.!
HELLO LADS - NO DON'T 1 GET UP, IT'S BAD NEWS ALL ROUND-SCARGILL SEEMS ALL SET TO MUSCLE IN ON OUR GENERAL COUNCIL!