DENNIS BARRY - Convenor, Joint Shop Stewards Committee, Laurence Scott and Electromotors, Manchester, speaking at the LCC conference fTHERE'S been a lot of doubt and confusion put about by the press and media as to exactly what's happening at Scotts.
Well, just to clear up any doubts on that question we're down here from Laurence Scott with an official delegation and we're still fighting.
We're in the fourteenth week of our occupation against an attempt by Arthur Snipe, managing director, chairman or ine boara ana emer snarenolact ol Mining Supplies, Doncaster to close us down with the loss oi obo jos ana move all our works to une Laurence Scott factory in Norwich.
We decided not to lie down but to give a platform from which the unions could t1ght.
The support from the rank and file of the unions both inside and outside Manchester has been tremendous but the biggest problem we have faced all along fer, engineering union leader Duffy and the rest wanlea to torce us lo accept 1l.
Snipe's proposals didn't guarantee a single job. But the officials threatened that unless we accepted them, strike pay and backing for the Doncaster picket would be withdrawn. Our mass meeting on Tuesday last week overwhelmingly rejected the official deal and supported the stewards' position for no enforced redundancies.
Then Ken Cure was sent down from the executive to persuade us to accept the deal. cnance. we are sul in a positon wnere we lave l0 make sure that the executive doesn't pull the carpet from under our feet.
That is why some point we'll have to get rid of Duffy and the 'Magnificent Seven' on the executive.
In the meantime we're fully supporting the campaign by Tony Benn for the deputy leadership.5 Messages of support and donations to LSE stewards c/o G Fryer, 20 Roundcroft, Romiley, Cheshire.
But he had no we are picketing it this Tuesday. At wouldn't accept the proxy vote or delay the vote until Monday. The girls voted to accept by a majority of one vote. Immediately after Novak called us in and on his desk was the money. It had all been cut and dried between Novak and Davidson.