"This dispute will be won by stopping, every ounce of steel in the country, according Brian secretary of. the Stocksbridge Tinsley Strike Committee.
-In South Yorkshire the strike is 100 per cent solid. We're leaving only token pickets on the BSC plants, and concentrating on the rest firms, stockholders, and ports.
As wé spoke in the local strike headquarters; pickets- were organised for the ports of Boston and Kings Lynn.
'Sirs' position is contradictory. On the one hand, he's saying that only BSC is involved in the dispute, and on the other, that no steel should move.
'Our position steelworkers should be out. the EC rejects our position, we will go ahead with mass pickets.' Brian outlined the position of the South Yorkshire Divisional Committee on the claim.
are for 20 per cent index linked, with no productivity strings at national or local level, and no more redundancies. We've sent telegrams to the EC explaining this.' Future In reply to the Tories' argument. that the steel strike threatens future of the industry, Molyneux explained:
"You don't have to argue on an economic basis, but on a social basis as it affects our members. Molyneux, & - private being that all Even if branch Strike charge.
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We start 'The lories BRIAN MOLYNEUX (top right) with the Stocksbridge and Tinsley Strike Committee is the secrelary of the Stocksbridge smelting shop ISTC also secretary National Constitutional Reform in the ISTC.
He was sacked by BSC on Thursday 6 December for what management claimed were 'persistent breaches of works rules'. Management claimed that he had attended an 'unofficial' meeting but provided no evidence to back up the The response of the workers was an immediate strike, with a vote of 293 to 7 in favour, despite it being just a few weeks before Christmas, and with the prospect of a national strike in the New Year.
Brian Molyneux has been hounded by following the publication of Steelworkers and Reform, a pamphlet by a number of ISTC branch secretaries from South Yorkshire, With the national strike over pay, the local dispute has been suspended, but only until the wages fight is over. from their need for jobs and a decent naîve; the say they must think we're Park Liaison Committee management since last May, Scunthorpe, and South fompare BSC with other countries. "don't get the subsidies that they do. which then gives them a beautiful argument hiving denationalise.' Suspect This point was underlined by local MP Allen McKay, who suspects that the BSC decision to steelworks in Scunthorpe, (Yorkshire and Humberside), is a step towards denationalisation.
He fears the dispute could end in the government abolishing BSC and assuming temporary control of state steel through the National Enterprise Board.
The industry gradually hived • off, capital allowed to take 51 per cent of any part of the corporation.
I approached BSC chairman Sir Charles Villiers about this plan, and told him that it closely resembled the operations of the old privately owned United Steels Company', McKay. 'He agreed with me.' Knackered Brian Molyneux added: 'If we didn't strike the trade union movement would be knackered. This isn't just directed at the steel industry. The Tories have picked us out as a weak union, mistake.
'This dispute is causing a minor • revolution in our Conseryative, branch becoming militans. This is going to be a different union after the strike.' to realise that the closure will fast be a reality uniess they When you're all together on strike, you start to feel negotiate confident.
The more successful the strike is, the more chance we've got to re-stari the fight against lay-offs off, to put