weld-in occupation According to Govemment figures there are 40 men chasing every job on South Tyneside, and redundancies are still mounting. Two hundred workers have When the workers at Brooke Cylinders (formerly Jarrow Tubes/ were told last Friday that the factory was closing they decided to occupy Brooke Culin ders is a subsidiary of Tube Investrents Group (owners of the notorious Fine Tubes factory), as was its predecessor Jarrow Tubes. Tube Investments closed the factory in December 1974(280 redundaricies/ and re-opened it as Brooke Cylinders last month, taking on 36 people. The firm is reported to have received an investment grant of £100,000 from the Government.
Red Weekly interviewed Hugh Nichol, the AUEW convenor, about the getting from other workers?
Jarrow and Hebburn Trades Council are holding an emergency meeting of their executive to consider what setion to take. They are also going to raise the matter with local MPs and ask thee to raise it with the Government. South Shields Trades Council have dune the same What further support are you hoping for?
Deperding on what happens on Monday, well make strong represenaton to every faciary on Tyneside and to every trade union organisalion. We'll appeal not only for money but for any solidarity they can give factory in a hurry taking part in the occupation enced by the exumple of other factory occupations?
This has been a big influence, Evgry day we're uble to see in the • papers and on TV that orber worKers are taking similar action. This ly against closures.
You are demanding that the factory be nationalised under wor kers control. How do you see this taking place!
rather a big concern for the 30-odd workers here to take on and defeat. In the course of this campaign we hope to enlist the active support and participation not only of local MP. and union ollicials but also of the Government. T.. have a long history.
of anti-trade union and anti working Class achvities and treat us with utter comtenin!
which in the past have been occupied oy students and low-paid workers we heing bought up. renovated, and placed on the market at up to four Lines the previous rent. The average cost of renting a renovated flat with two bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom in Aberdeen is around 4120 a month.
Another frature of the present situation is that land is heing bought up by the oil monopolies and oilrelated service firms for industrial redevelopment. One area of Aberdzen, Did Torry, was planned as a conservation arca. But this site was of prime importance to the oil companies as it surrounded Aberdeen Docks So under pressure from Shell the Labour Council prompty rever sed its order, and the whole area, which consisted of small tenement flats, was bought by Shell for office NAME and service area development.
At Upperkirkgate, also in Aberdeen, Taylor Woodrow Property Co and Badero (Scotland) Lid have just bought an 11 acre site for redevelop ment. The wrea surrounds the Univer sity and is again made up of smail (British section of the Fourth International!
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