THE battle lines hardened over the last week in the fight by 650 Manchester engineering workers to keep open their factory, Laurence Scott and Electromotors.
Every worker received letter 'confirming that recorded delivery considered them sacked for having repudiated' their LUll tracts of employment.
Official Meanwhile the AUEW. ASTMS made the action APEX and official so every worker replied to the local managing director, Nash, refusing lo accept ihe sackings.
Now the campaign is on for widespread labour movement support, Following a visit by a delegation the March For Jobs Laurence Scott's workers were well to the fore in the 2,000 demonstration which escorted the march on way Manchester to Stockport.
The 3000 workers from the other main factory in the group in Norwich have also pledged support though they are also dispute with their new boss Laurence Scott's workers in occupation and on the Manchester march Arthur Snipe.
Some 93 workers at the Norwich factory were given half an hour's notice of dismissal. The workforce has already agreed to boycott all work Manchester and is planning further action al mass meeting this week.
The only sour note was when 25 stewards visited unions Snipe's parent company Mining Supplies Doncaster. The union there is 'weak and they drew a blank.
This sort would like to see imall his newiv acquired factories, and which Tom Clare, a hard man', have other senior steward, is determined to prevent happening at the Manchester facwant these jobs for ourselves and our kids.
This factory isn't going to close,' he told Socialist Challenge Tom Clare and conBob Penchion are confident of victory. They Motors are sitting on an estimated £24m of motors and still taking delivery of more from customers desperate to have them serviced.
They received telexes addressed to 'the cirike commee dronex porters who stand to loose colli alls vital export markets like Nigeria. All enquiries about these and the 120 motors for the Admiralty are reffered to Arthur Snipe.
The JR of Doncaster THE financial press has called Arthur Snipe and taugh nut. The workers descriptions of him, most of Master of the hunt in his native Yorkshire, Snipe made his fortune from providing equipment to the coal industry. Last year he awarded himself a 33 per cent pay rise (up to E25,640) and made over £180,000 outside the occupied factory does go into the price of coal.
Guardian Snipe has nothing.
father's stall -origins behind him representative of the bosses • Laurence Scott's convenor Bob Penchion (right)
in the same year just from a 2p share dividend.
We're beginning to find out just what really Accarding to a 1975 profile of him in the Colliery workee MS trom Apparenty her tarted wig eat the to is 14 in a Yorkshire colliery tramming empties if so, he's certainly put his humble and is acting as a true blue
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