By Dave Carter & Chris Jones thousand people Salsoma over the proposed closure of British Rail waggon works.
the impact of closure on the town, around the works, opened in 1827. ment will top 50 per cent, yet no speaker proposed strikes or occupations.
field, near Consett. of the mistakes made there in the fight against closure, and of the demoralisation now, two vears later.
workshops at Horwich and Swindon are not to go the same way then support must be broadened. As part of this process the previous Tuesday, 25 May, delegates from the workshops, backed up workers Shildon, Westminster.
quences that the closures towns. Roger Stott, MP for the Horwich area, and a shadow transport spokesperson, stated that the Labour Party is preparing a plan for BR based on investment and modernisation.
save their jobs. Shildon works chairperson, John Parry Ha waoed hast rt trike ws ineritable Darlington, warned of the dangers of parochialism and stressed the need to maintain unity. In fact, the Triple Alliance, of coal, steel and rail workers, needs now to be brought into effect.
marched through Co Durham, last Saturday, to protest.
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