At 2.45 last Tuesday morning 45 bailiffs armed with sledge hammers and pick handles threw workers occupying Laurence Scott factory Manchester. They broke windows, knocked a wall down and told everyone to get off site.
Shop steward Phil Penning told Socialist Challenge that while he was making some phone calls two bailiffs broke down the door of the office he was in, although locked, and told him to get out. They were both heavy men, one must have been at least 20 stone and as I walked past them, they stank of beer.
The strikers immediately issued press They are determined to fight What we have witnessed today is a disgrace British industrial relations. From the ourset the workers at Laurence Scott have sought nothing other than the right to work. When consultation takes the form of sledge hammers and pick axe handles then we are axe the the that they in bailiffs.
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Sellout union leaderships. returning to the nineteenth century The workers at Laurence Scott have repeatedly declared would not resist the In such circumstances how can we possibly justify 40 to 50 men with sledge hammers and pick axe handles being sent to •We would hope that every trade unionist in the North west will join our demonstration outside the factory on Sunday, August, at 1lam to show the Arthur Snipes of this world that they cannot treat workers in this way.
"The manner in which the factory was repossessed today will make the workers ever more determined to pursue their fight from the streets outside the facThis latest development in the struggle of Laurence Scott workers for the right to work comes in the wake of a compiete sell out by the Laurence Scott workers have overwhelmingly voted to continue the fight and not accept the agreement cooked up by boss Arthur Snipe and union officials.
But despite withdrawal of official
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