Underlying some of the reluctance to propose in dustrial action is the fear thai such action could hasten the end of BSC's Scotland operations Those workers still employed fear threatening their then fither if the ope or own prospects BSC in what they consider could be a futile battle.
The failure OI the STUC and the Labour Party to stop the closure of Talbot Linwood, the Singer plant at Clydebank and the Invergordon smelter viously doesn't fill the workers with confidence.
But steelworkers will also remember the tremendous fight put up by the women al Lee Jeans tory at Greenock and the Plessey Tactor Bathgate. Their militant action and the mass cam paigns which they were able to inspire in their sup port shows what would be possible if the full weight of the steelworkers was us. ed to stimulate such a campaign throughout Scotland.