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Socialist Press1980 1980-09-10Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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like to be beside the seaside! • The first week of September saw the axing of yet another 150 jobs on Teeside at the BTP Tioxide factory in Billingham.
Another 585 workers at the plant face short time working or lay off by September 15.
Meanwhile Whessoes in Darlington are to make 40 white collar staff redundant, and more than half the 136 workforce at the British United Shoe Machinery plant in Skelton are now on short time. These continuing cutbacks, on top of the rundown of Southbank steelworks, the closure of Middlesborough docks, the closure of Consett steelworks and Hepworth's clothing factories, have brought_ unemployment in the North East to the astronomical levels now current in Scotland.
In Hartlepool, the unemployment rate is now over 17%. . But until the Tory government is brought down by mass working class action, the empty protests of trade union and Labour leaders offer nothing to the growing army of unemployed in the North East and elsewhere.
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Merseyside Factor Closures' A pamphlet prepared by NW Area Workers Socialist League. Drawing lessons of Speke, Dunlops, Meccano.
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