IMGpapers

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

AT MACLAREN'S

Red Weekly No. 44, 22 March 1974 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 311 words

The scan: rw-no44-mar-22-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 1 of the scan

Tue siny night wernight. Shops teward sstopped attempt sto more equipmeut out of the Gh gow ITT factory, Maclaren Controls on By chance IMG member Erl Wilkie was possing the factory. He spotted a van being loaded and im mediately reported this to Maclarens Convenor John Mortson. The shop stewardsgot there just in time to stop £5,000 worth of equipment being taken away. They made the five office staff worken who had loaded the van unload it and hand over the key and then stayed in the factory The expected Tory/Liberal a mouft on the Government the other day turnad out to be a love-in. Sut Poliee put the boot in with a vengeance at Essa, and the Price sister shares now beee tortured for 17 days undor a Labour Govarnment.

Ta case you hadn't noticed we still have a capitalist cras with us and we mill faive a date trying to koep the a stem going by aticking workers, dudents black people and the lish people. And we sill need paper slike fed oaky 10 get the mes pga bére cr bout whet/s hegpshing, writ hein to tight back, Help us to do a better lo Sond usa donation for our fund drive A/OV Sind to For Week/y Fune Drive, 5 7 Caladonian At a meeting the next morning the management claimed that the operation had been carried out by a saff member without management knowledge Tuscan be taken with a van load of salt. It was just sich a fly-by-night operation which sparked off the occupation and it took place during a break which the management had requested, in negotiations on redundancies.

The management refused to ack the staff member responsible becaus "He is too uscful to us." Yes indeed See pages 4-5.

page 2 of the scan

by the 'experts" to pass the million They understand that its mild

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