NATIONAL RICH 10 100 closure of Fife's pits Union general Labour, Tories and the SNP have all fed Scottish workers the same story. Don't worry if the traditional heavy industries are going to the wall, oil's coming to save us. That will But the story is getting a bit sick now. In the same week that unemployment topped one and a half million, it was announced that 1200 workers at ine recoamn Dorman Lone rig construction yard in Methil, Fife, can expect to join the dole queue by the end of the vear. ne vare was onenaly named the solution to unemployment caused by the Two hundred RDL workers were joined by stewards from other yards in a demonstration against the closure at the end of last monin out walle many or ais memocro word marching for the right to work, Engineering secretary John Boyd was tellina a meeting in Glasgow that despite the difficult situation, the Government doing the riaht thina.. . Labour will only win Bovd's claims were somewhat sh with the announcement on the same day in Dundee alone - where unemployme a ready over tver cent— Dou worke National Cash Registers and 300 emplo in the Public Works Department have sacked Government-ordered cuts). Boyd's po -InE clatter foresight also seems to be limited. Covne. joint chairperson of the RDL a committee, pointed out at the demons ion: 1if the Government doesn't do s ning about chronic unemployment in S land, Labour voters will stay away from polls or vote SNP.
ine workers at RDL and Dundee expect little help in defending their jobs the likes of Boyd or the Scottish TUC latter busily announcing its wish for 'c instead the lead given by the Rolls R peration with ine baoiner. they snould t workers at Blantyre occupying agains sure.