By Steve Potter and Peter Clifford hitting him caster last Monday.
The mass picket, came the closure of Manchester lactory, Laurence Scott, entered its 11th week.
One hundred pickets took to Doncaster, successiv turning away supplies for the firm including vital oxygen from the Rotherham BOC plant. The picket, which will now continue on a 24 hour basis, will bring new pressure on Mining SUD of both plants, Arthur Snipe.
Snipe was there
greet the pickets his Rolls Royce with signs 'WE'RE taking the fight home to the boss -where it hurts! That was how Laurence Scott steward Elaine Cross explained the mass picket of Mining Supplies in Donand other crude gestures.
He has mauc a Hallic for himself in this dispute through provocative •ano aggressive actions towards in his 2rOuD. A steware le no Doncaster plant said that couldn't speak Socialist Challenge bec'there are spies in the plant.' These sort of methods Snipe in his other factories reputedly used in Wolverhampton, Norwich and Blantyre.
Snipe mistakes though. week he sent redundancy money to the workers occupation who, after taking legal advice, foud that thev could cash it without their Laurence Scott workers on Cardiff demo tracts Unlike elsewhere, the question of workers losing redundancy money has The mass picketing of Mining Supplies has meant a retreat by national union officials in their backing of the occupation. However, official support for the picketing was withdrawn when Snipe offered talks 1l it was called off. . The fear the picketing would Lila collide the Tories anti-union laws was also a factor in their climbdown.
But Laurence Scott prepared workers are on the march in Cardiff they believe they can crack the resistance Arthur Snipe, despite the backing he is receiving from the Employer:
Federation.
To make sure of it workers from the occupa tion are in Jersey this week scekille suppor: from the miners' union mie cupation Is alse fast assuming nationa political importance.