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Scots shut WITH A savagery unknown even after 2½ years of Tory rule, British Aluminium (BACO) shut down its Invergordon smelter on Wednesday 30 December 1981.
Only the previous week management had been strenuously denying rumours of any closure of the smelter. Then on Tuesday 29 December they announced ARTHUR Snipe didn't get the Christmas present he wanted this year - his factory back. A meeting of the Laurence Scotts strike committee last Monday decided to continue the fight to save the jobs of the remaining strikers.
Despite the ending of the picket in Doncaster - beaten by the weather and lack of cash and official union backing rather than by the courts or the police - and the lull over the Christmas holidays, the determination is still there to carry the dispute through to the end.
"There's still plenty of spirit, so we're pushing on" said convenor Dennis Barry.
The plan now is to make the factory in Louisa Street the focus of activity again. A mass picket of Scotts workers has been organised for this Friday, to show Snipe, and AUEW executive member Ken Cure for that THORNETT matter, that the support is still there among the workMore effort is also going to put into getting donations and delegations from factories in the Manchester area. ' With increased support from the labour movement, the name of Laurence Scotts should continue giving Messrs Snipe, Boyd .and Duffy many more sleepless nights in 1982.
PETE KEENLYSIDE ballot, TGWU RTC National Committee simply adopted a policy calling for trade union con-