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Address For multi-reader THE SIT-IN at Laurence Scott's is now in its third week. By a clear majority a mass meeting last Sunday. voted to continue the fight against the closure of the Louisa Street works in Openshaw, Manchester For new readers we are offering TEN ISSUES of The meeting was told of management's threats to sack the whole workforce and therefore withdraw redundancy pay they didn't return to work But the workers reply came loud and clear:
..Manchester. rovers, referring Doncaster the Doncaster-based firm Mining Supplies Ltd, the the Laurence Scott group).
be browbeaten into submis-;
said, and a sion. ther great cheer went up when the vote was announced.
Some 650 jobs are at stake in the closure battle, in the long saga of job in the lons job destruction the ManThat's why chester area Wally people are rushing support the strikers.
The local Labour MPs have given their support.
Movement Mining Supplies' boss, the appropriately named Arthur Snipe announced at the time of the takeover last October that he was 'quite content Manchester works because of its regular profit contribution to the group.
His decision to now close the factory is a classic of capitalist logic which puts profits before people. It was explained in* Cule the sales director the other Laurence Scott's factory in Norwich as 'a policy of so that investment... can plemented on one site' sack the chester, and transter • Works To Norwich. The one snag in me imited aschem or was maximising scheme workforce.
the workers at Norwich heard that the sithad started Manchester they decided work that was transferred and to pay a weekly levy to the strike fund.
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