What will be the effect of BSC's proposals on Clydebridge? Terrible. There will be very littie steel-making left in the area in scotland as a whole there will be approximately 4,000 jobs lost.
In ane aroune ine canarkshire and Glasgow area, they are paying off Rolls Royce, they are paying off Marathon, paying off Hoover. In Cambuslang they are asking for even more redundancies.
Cambuslang is going to die. There are two main industries, Hoover and BSC. It won't just affect those two inaustres, it will go right down to the smal shop-keeper.
On top of all this, Glasgow District Council are threatening to put 2,000 people out of work.
What has been the general attitude of people in your area to the BSC proposals? • To utterly reject them Are you in favour of national strike action?
Yes, definitely. But some of the workers are airaic to take strike action.t they walk out of the gate, the management will close the gates and never open them again. Occupations nave not been is there' considered yet, but they probably will be Another problem is that the staff unions, APEX and ASTMS, are not represented on the National Steel Committeerine steer committee user nas kept us off. We have been trying to get on tor inree vears. but we nave been blocked. Somehow they don't seem to look on staff members as trade unionists.
So by cutting you out they have cut women out of representation on the national steel committee? More or less. We have 55 per cent female membership and 2,000 members in ScotOther workers have complained at at the lack of information. Would you be in favour of a trade union campaign to open up all the books of the BSC?
Yes. We have called for an independent public enquiry into the management of Ine boc. ve nave sent teleorams to bill Sirs on this. The BSC are telling their oredo ano butter customers to imoon from abroad. One of the works is rolling Dutch siads. nat are they trying to and down the country to prevent any mass walk-out when the BSC the South Wales plantsent deadline being 8 February. In give leadership and policy to the ers who have fought against mass sackings and wage cuts.
Action Committee has already exin other plants it can send out the plant delegates to work out a stratthe scabbing role of their own unIons.
Books acular nave snown Enat unis is poss ible. Their example must be seized upon and developed in other steel plants before the heavy hand of the ISTC bureaucracy can deaden the prospects for a fight.
ch any fight back. 80 per cent of average earnings to steelworkers. By fighting for its extension into a 100 per cent policy giving full protection to earnings Over the next few weeks the union leaders will be campaigning up starts reducing week-end working in the presthese plants action committees invol ving all unions on site are needed to thousands of rank-and-file steelworkIn Scotland, the Scottish Steel earnings and all jobs. pressed its disappointment with the deal. Along with action committees call for a national conference of steelegy to beat the BS's plans and break The Port Talbot workers in partIn the presently existing guaran- Pimps teed working week steel workers have a vital weapon around which to launThis guarantees
4 Cars the firms) by the workers. Real workers control such as could be planned through the opening of the companies books will not be won by force of argument with the employers or the Labour Government, but only by the organisation of mass action by the workers themselves.
Refusal lefts) may like the idea of participation, but the sort of control needed to defeat the car bosses gives Lord Ryder and Harold Wilson bad dreams. In BL Cowley recentlý, when the stewards' Open the Books Committee threw out a management proposal to reveal the financial state Red Weekly 29 January 1976