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coating is really concerned with is to pour is much of the income fron North Sea Dil as it can into the ever-widening balance of myments This is why it has let super-exploitation rip in the wil industry since the toil-boom But the oil monopolies will not tolerate even token interference.
Their answer to Labour's pre-election daydreams was drimitio and direct: a consortium of 17 companies, including Shell, Esso, Texaco, Gulf and Mobil, founded the gigantic Brent system to co ordinate the exploitation of five wells one hundred miles off the The Brent system has the capacity to handle half of Britain's present antual crude oil regairements. He projected collay wis The sicht of such stakos sent Labour and its *51 per cent purchase" scheme into It is the oil moguls who are forcing the pace towards a showdown, by transferring contracts out of Scotland to hold Back Labour's attempt to protest. "lake control' is now no more thin a series of bigger and bigger con- industry at Nigg and Arderlier cessions to the oil monopolies: 51 per cent ownership is to be taken only in selected companies; in and, in return for the dropping revenue tax proposals have been cut down; and Labour has prom- berweens for a meeting between Ised not to take any profits from the ORC and the right-wing the companies it buys shares in.
SHELL plans:
For oil-related industry workers in unionising all oil industry workers there's more at stake in this than and extend the combine into ail Labour's pride in its hare-brained The transfer of contracts abroad is causing massive cutbacks and redundancies in rig and module construction and pipe workers.
The two main oil-related industries in Leith, Edinburgh give stars propf of this. Tao bundred and forty workers at Bredero-Price no loss of jobs. pipes are being laid off with no guarantee of new contracts. And Edinburgh IMG (the contracts have gone to France, Holland and Norway), against the bankrupt policy of the Labour Government, by demanding nationalisation under workers contral, the strike was reduced to a confused token As the weaker sections of the backed out of the action, the Scottish TUC bureaucracy stepped of strike action, acted as goLabour Oil Minister John Smith. The danger of petting trapped in the blind alley of chats over tea with right-wing hacks, while jobs go down the drain and the monopolies get more belliperent, is now becoming clear to many workers in the oil-related industries.
Oil industry workers need a ligating poisy against both che oil boises and Labour's bankrupt *The ORC should take the lead sectors of the industry, *The international monopolies must be challenged by the internationas linking of European oil industry *Against Labour's concessions to the oil monopolies, workers should demand nationalisation under workers control with a gurantee of