IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Occupying to save jobs!

· Socialist Challenge No. 185, 19 February 1981 · p. 4 of the scan · 168 words

The scan: sc-n185-feb-19-1981.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 4 of the scan

'WE will stay as long as necessary to save every job even if it means staying indefinitely. Inal was te message from 200 women occupying Lee Leisurewear factory in Greenock.

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