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management's plan work the immediate reaction of most workers was to calculate how much they would receive in redundanc paylells Manv thought the only thing left for them to negotiate was a higher redundan This mood didn't per cent unemployment in the town of Linwood or the other 286,000 Scottish workers already which shop stewards met in the afternoon and decided to call a mass meeting of the workforce.

At the meeting the next day there was an overwhelming vote to reject shop stewards the organise the fightback. stewards convenor ingstone was quoted as promising as big a fight over Linwood as there had been at UCS.

It's already clear, however, alterences are emeraina over now the fight should be shop stewards committee is coming pressure TUC to prevent any action at Lin-

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