occupiers.
that they and others will."
The Personna occupation deserves the support of the whole labour movement. The IMG will be raising rungs for we occupaton dung us naaonwide tour to build for the 26 November lobby.
Ruby Duncan, Personna Occupation Treasurer, points out the urgency of financial support: *E100 to us is a week's food to keep this factory going. It would also do for about a week's bus fares for the Today (31 October) we have only £274 in hand. Quite a few factories which have sent money say they will send more. We hope Messages of support, requests for speakers, and the largest possible donations should be rushed to: Ruby Duncan, 27 Bowfield Crescent, Penilee, GlasDetails of the IMG speaking tour will appear in ics out of their struggle. The Committee was among the first organisations of the Glasgow labour movement to protest against the police riot against anti-fascists at Kingston Halls in May; and they have now arranged to send a delegation to the demonstration on 16 Nov-; ember in protest against the raid on the WRP education centre. Commenting on the recent proposals for a drastic extension of police powers of search, detention and interrogation in Scotland, and the pending legislation against squatting and occupation, Convenor 'It's obviously necessary for workers in struggle to combat this. It's going to happen that police just go into a factory and pull The mass occupations by French workers in May-June '68, and the following series of camSUPPO Convenor PHIL McBRIDE described to Re Weekly the support which the occupation has raceived:
1 am a member of the Paisley District Commi tee of the AUEW and we've had untold support from them. We haven't had any contact from the Glasgow District Committee vet. There's to be a meeting of all Paisley & District shop stewards in the occupied factory on Monday 10 November and there we'll try to arrange a weekly levy going round the factories for us.
"As far as support at a national level is concern the AUEW's Executive Committee holds its meet ings every Tuesday and it's only them that can de This Tuesday, they all trolloped off to Brussels to Common Market meeting. We'll now have to wai peopic out by the nan or me neac. ines should keep their noses out of political an industrial situations.' Mc Bride has no doubt about where the blame for rocketing unemployment lies:
*Labour are doing what they said they wouldn't do. They said they wouldn't bea this crisis by using unemployment. They'r now doing just that. The figure of 1¼ mill is quoted, but I'm sure it's much higher. If you take into account people, especially w men, paying the small stamp, who don't bo to register, there's probably another quart or half a million on top of that.
They keep blaming wages for this, but i the exact opposite. Something's obviously prepare to call out hundreds of thousands i strikes that would last an average of three The Heath Government continued the rationalisation of British industry in a more extreme torm with its so-called lame duck policy - the refusal of Government loans o grants to backward sectors of the economy not necessary for the economy as a whole. In June 1971 the Government decided to withhold financial assistance from UCS and allow it to go into liquidation. In the Clydeside area unemployment had risen bet ween 1966 and 1971 to 10 per cent. If UC went into liquidation the 8,500 redundanci would have pushed that up to 17 per cent. I addition there would have been a further 2,000 redundant in the industries supplyir the shipyards UCS workers' leader, Jimmie Reid On 23 June the UCS shop stewards, led b Jimmie Reid and James Airlie - both members of the Executive Committee of the Sco tish Communist Party - called a demonstrat and a one-day strike in the militant Clyde/ Glasgow area. About 100,000 workers struc shutting down most local industry. Thirty thousand marched through Glasgow led by