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Socialist Organiser1981 1981-10-15Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 14 →
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they are forced to make contassians. ERSWELL THE CAMPAIGN is building up to make the Laurence Scotts dispute official again.
Both the Manchester area Confed and the Manchester North District AUEW are behind the strikers. As we go to press, it seems likely that the Final Appeal Court on Thursday 13th will make the workers' action official.
If this occurs, the strike will gain new life. Strike pay will be resumed, and the re sources to carry out essential actions such as picketing at the Doncaster plant will be made available again. The crime is that the dispute should ever have been made unofficial.
The role of certam union leaderships is still bad. At the last I ASINS N to discuss the question, Jenkins argued that the LSE workers had ignored the advice of their own union and were influenced by "outsiders" ASTMS have used the smallness of their own numbers in the dispute to argue that they have no influence.
A conference has been organised to buik support for the LSE workers within the labour movement. This will be on November 14 at UMIST and will be open to all LSE supporters. This is important and should be used to buik Manchesterwide action against redundancies.
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