the opposite was taking place. As Larr Connolly testifies: The toolmakers had tremendous support. would have been possible to get whole sections supporting As Mick Hogan puts it, What the toolmakers did was good. I'm semi-skilled, but whatever they get reflects on the shop floor...as far as my shop floor goes they will get massive This was the sort of unity that was beginning to be forged around the toolmakers. Those divisions that did exist among were those promoted by Scanlon and the other eaders of the 21 unions in the car industry. And in the name of unity' they were joined by the Morning Star, Derek Robinson and those other CP members who took them at their words like Communist Party cooperation with management in the 'nationalised' industries - have put them tirmly in the THE SUPPORT the Leyland too/room workers were starting to receive is illustrated by what happened at the Rolls Royce plantat Bristol.
On Tuesday 15 March, after they had heard of Scanlon's threats toolroom Rodney factories called a mass meeting and voted for a stoppage with ine Leyland workers toolroom stave ouron weeneseal. are that night a very angry picket of of the AUEW.
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