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	Upper Clyde Shipbuilders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Upper Clyde Shipbuilders was a group which amalgamated the major shipbuilders of the River Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
		However the industry has continued to decline and there are now even fewer yards open on the Clyde than there were at the time of the work-in.
		Reid's tactics worked and public sympathy in the Glasgow area and beyond was on the side of the workers who took part.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Upper_Clyde_Shipbuilders_Work-in (589 words)

	Red Clydeside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Even since then Glasgow has been known for political and industrial militancy, the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work In of 1971, led by the then communist Jimmy Reid for example.
		To mobilise the workers of Clydeside against the First World War, the Clyde Workers' Committee (CWC) was formed, with William Gallacher as its head and David Kirkwood its treasurer.
		This period has its roots directly in working class opposition to the United Kingdom's participation in World War I, although the area had a long history of political Radicalism going back to its involvement in the Friends of the People society and the "Radical War" of 1820.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Clydeside (1129 words)

	Salon Directory
		The context of Britain in the early '70s, and big struggles like the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in and the war in Ireland, were part of the scene in that we took workers' power for granted.
		Working out a left-wing theory of libertarianism might strike some observers as a headlong dive into a thicket of ultra-thorny contradictions.
		As Murray Rothbard is supposed to have said of New York: "We already have the war of all against all, and it works fine!"
	dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/1999/07/27/macleod_interview/?... (4406 words)

	Jimmy Reid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He came to prominence in the early 1970s when he led the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-in to try and stop Edward Heath's Conservative government from closing down the shipyards on the River Clyde.
		An engineer by trade, and a union official, Reid, along with his colleague Jimmy Airlie, decided that the best way to show the viability of keeping the yards open was by staging a 'work-in' rather than by going on strike.
		Jimmy Reid is a Govan born journalist and ex-trade union activist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jimmy_Reid (336 words)

	LINDA SMITH AND OTHERS v. UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS LTD (IN LIQUIDATION) AND ANOTHER, 08 September 1999, Lord Bonomy
		UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS LTD (IN LIQUIDATION) AND ANOTHER, 08 September 1999, Lord Bonomy
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		Dating the onset to or near mid-1996, the features favouring bronchial carcinoma are the very heavy and prolonged smoking history, the collapse or partial collapse of the right upper lobe, the eventual appearance of haemoptysis, the appearance of a probable large malignant node mass in the neck and the absence of markers of asbestos exposure.
	www.scotcourts.gov.uk /opinions/0724597.html (9199 words)

	BBC News Business 'Blood and sweat' of the River Clyde
		It was the Govan shipbuilding yard, together with John Brown's Clydebank and the Stevens yard at Linthouse which provided the crucible of the famous Upper Clyde shipbuilders work-in of 1971.
		The Scottish Convention which gave birth to the new parliament, itself was created from the political momentum for change launched by the work-in at Upper Clyde.
		When Margaret Thatcher declared that "the lady was not for turning" it was the turnabout of her predecessor in relation to the Upper Clyde she was denouncing.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/318055.stm (563 words)

	Radical Glasgow
		This was seen by the shop stewards as an attempt by the government to divide the workforce leaving Clydebank out and isolated.
		The meeting was unanimous in demanding that shipbuilding should be retained on the Upper Clyde.
		Of the 399 men made redundant, 277 decided to stay with the “work-in” and were able to continue working and receiving their average weekly wage from the campaign fund.
	www.gcal.ac.uk /radicalglasgow/chapters/ucs_workin.html (4629 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Work-in
		A famous work-in was the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in of 1971.
		A work-in is a form of direct action, where a group of workers whose jobs are under threat resolve to remain in their place of employment and continue producing without pay.
		The intention is usually to show that their place of work still has long-term viability, or can be effectively self-managed by the workers.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Work-in (229 words)

	XUV - Online Information article about XUV
		The Lower, Middle and Upper Lias consist chiefly of shales and shelly limestones, with some sandstones, well seen along the shores of Broadford Bay in Skye and in some of the adjacent islands.
		The Lower Oolite is distinguished by the occurrence in it of some coal-seams, one of which, 3J ft. in thickness, has been worked at Brora.
		discovery of which led to the rocks being separated from the Upper Old Red Sandstone, to which they had previously been thought to belong.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /WIL_YAK/XUV.html (4870 words)

	UCSWorkIn.html
		The exhibit which commemorates the 30th anniversary of the Upper Clyde shipbuilders work-in is to move to the Elderpark Library in Govan.
		They didn't win the war as we saw this summer when Clydeside jobs were again under threat, but they won the battle and saved the jobs of 8500 workers.
		The UCS work-in stands as one of the most famous in Scottish trade union history which saw workers from a consortium of five separate yards occupy the yards in a bid to secure their future.
	www.sunnygovan.com /PLACES/Clyde/UCSWorkIn.html (248 words)

	river clyde
		The Clyde is also well-known for its shipbuilding which has declined in recent years, but saw the launch of such well-known ocean liners as the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth 2.
		The River Clyde flows from its source in lowland Scotland to its mouth near Glasgow at the Firth of Clyde, where it flows into the North Channel of the Irish Sea.
		The Clyde Valley near New Lanark is particulary fertile, and home to many tomato greenhouses and garden centres, as well as being a magnet for tourists.
	www.fact-library.com /river_clyde.html (169 words)

	screenonline: Class Struggle: Film from the Clyde (1977)
		Following events that took place on the Clyde in 1971 when The Guardian newspaper disclosed the contents of a secret Tory party document, as a result of which the four Scottish shipbuilding yards began a work-in that lasted over a year.
		The retrospective observations of the men involved in the work-in reflect the disagreement between those who supported it as a means of protecting jobs and those who thought it part of a general campaign against capitalism.
		This balance is signified by the film's title, but the work-in was exemplary in its form.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/1084218/index.html (285 words)

	Ex-Stalinist Jimmy Reid supports Scottish Socialist Party
		What this meant for the working class was exposed in the struggle that emerged in 1971 over the Tory government's decision to close Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, where Reid was leader of the shop stewards.
		Presented as a radical new tactic for the working class, and cloaked in militant-sounding rhetoric, this innovation meant quite simply that the shipyard workers would work for nothing while the yards were under their control.
		The years 1968-75 were marked by a world-wide revolutionary upsurge of the working class, from the May-June 1968 movement in France and the Tet Offensive against America's invasion of Vietnam to the 1974 strike wave in Britain which brought down the Heath government.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/dec1998/reid-d01.shtml (1679 words)

	BBC - History - UCS work-in starts, 1971
		By 1971 there were only 8,500 men working in five shipyards organised into the Lower and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders.
		The ploy worked in the short-term; in February 1972 the Government caved-in and retained two of the yards and sold off another to Marathon for oil-rig building.
		The work-in, where workers worked on as normal but without being paid, was a new tool for strikers.
	www1.thny.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/scotland/ucs.shtml (161 words)

	BBC - Education Scotland 14+ History - Social Change: Employment
		The other shipyards on the upper Clyde became Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS).
		The supporters of the UCS 'work in' organized marches, concerts, public collections and other fund raising activities to support the workers involved in the 'work in'.
		The 'work in' continued until February/March 1972 when the government reversed its decision not to support UCS.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/education/hist/employment/ship/section_d/index.shtml (259 words)

	Glasgow University Archive Services - Collections - Summary Catalogue - Records of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd, Clydebank Division, shipbuilders, Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
		Following the collapse of Upper Clyde Shipbuiders in 1972 the yard was taken over by Marathon Shipbuilding Co (UK) Ltd for the building of oil rigs.
		Records held by Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd, Clydebank Division prior to acquisition by the National Archives of Scotland.
		Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd, Clydebank Division (shipbuilders: 1968-1972: Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, Scotland).
	www.archives.gla.ac.uk /collects/catalog/ugd/301-350/ugd348.html (706 words)

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		They are encouraged to participate fully in the branch's work, in order to pool experience, to deepen their own understanding of political affairs and of Marxist theory, and to develop to their full potential as communists.
		He emphasised the need for the working class and its allies to take political power, guided by a revolutionary party and creating their own form of popular working class rule.
		A victory for one section of the international working class movement is a victory for all.
	www.welshcommunists.co.uk (2791 words)

	Glasgow University Archive Services - About Us - Publications - Dunaskin News - March 2002 - Archivists and Maritime Collections at GUAS - A Cautionary Tale
		Records of social provision for workers along the Clyde and their dependants and examples of philanthropy can be clearly seen in the records of the Sailors Orphan Society of Scotland; Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Co; and Lithgows Ltd.
		The University of Glasgow collections consist of records, including photographs and plans as well as written documentation, of shipyard and shipbuilders all along the course of the River Clyde from Govan to Greenock and Kelvinhaugh to Dumbarton.
		The original shallowness of the River Clyde gave the initial impetus to the growth of Glasgow but when that shallowness threatened the continual growth of the city, the City developed the Clyde into a major seaport and commercial centre.
	www.archives.gla.ac.uk /about/dunaskin/mar2002/marguas.html (1265 words)

	Scottish Shipbuilders on Almondnet
		Mr Reid, who led the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' work-in in 1971, said he was joining the Nationalists as Labour had "abandoned and betrayed" its fundamental...
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	Scotsman.com News - Features - Growing old with Laurel and Hardy
		After his return to his native Glasgow in 1969, he took a degree in English and drama, and in 1972, was musical director on Billy Connolly’s The Great Northern Welly Boot Show, a riotous celebration of the Upper Clyde shipbuilders’ work-in.
		Life’s work: recovering from a stroke, Tom McGrath is taking time to reflect on his writing - and enjoying the revival of his 1973 play Laurel and Hardy.
		In London in the 1960s, he’d worked on Peace News and was a founder editor of International Times, a bible of hippy counter-culture.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=405802005 (1651 words)

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	Evening Telegraph: News
		More than three decades on Jimmy Reid is still best known for his leading role in the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in in the early 1970s when the Conservative government announced its intention to close the yards.
		At the time of the work-in Mr Reid was a member of the Communist Party, but later switched allegiance and joined Labour.
		As the most recognisable and most often quoted member of the UCS shop stewards he became the public face of the work-in, which attracted both national and international attention.
	www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk /output/2005/04/20/story7039936t0.shtm (579 words)

	The UCS: Upper Clyde Shipbuilders
		Three hundred men took part and continued to work during the action which lasted eight months.
		The closure of the four yards at UCS in 1971 would have meant the loss of 70% of the jobs at the company.
	www.netcomuk.co.uk /~media/UCStp.html (78 words)

	BBC - Education Scotland 14+ History - Social Change: Employment
		So it would seem that after long weeks of uncertainty, while the 'work in' has gone on at the yards, there is more than a fair chance that the familiar super structure of shipbuilding on the Upper Clyde will survive.
		The UCS 'work in' marked a change in industrial relations.
		Today's round of talks and the talks planned for next week, the new attitude of the shop stewards and the coming together of all parties could, it's hoped be the final break through for Clydeside."
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/education/hist/employment/ship/section_d/page02.shtml (318 words)

	Scottish National Party : SNP
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	Life After Trotskyism
		And since this relieved me of all responsibility or need for political involvement there was no reason for me to work out my political position.
		We would have worked to secure the positions of chair and secretary and tried to pack the committee with political supporters – that is, if we had any.
		Far from the situation being one of actual or imminent terminal crisis of capitalism creating pre-revolutionary or revolutionary situations we were in the middle of a prolonged boom and expansion of capitalism – a situation completely unfavourable to the building of a revolutionary party.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Back/Wnext24/Harry.html (5814 words)

	Jimmy Reid joins SNP — SNP - Scottish National Party
		Jimmy Reid was leader of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) work-in in 1971- which lasted 14 months and saved the jobs of 8,500 shipyard workers - and was elected rector of Glasgow University.
		Jimmy Reid, leader of the famous Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in in 1971 and one of Scotland's most respected trade unionists, today announced that he has joined the Scottish National Party.
		A former shipbuilding engineer and union official, in recent years he has been a successful newspaper columnist, broadcaster and author.
	www.snp.org /snpnews/2005/snp_press_release.2005-04-20.0910799013 (485 words)

	When Workers Beat The Heath Government The Socialist 28 February 2004
		In 1971 the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in caught the imagination of millions and sparked a wave of factory occupations against redundancies and closures.
		With electrical power engineers working to rule as well, the government declared a state of emergency and introduced petrol rationing, power cuts and 13% interest rates.
		Then, ostensibly to save energy and conserve coal stocks, a three-day working week (in effect a two-day lock-out) was introduced to try to divide other workers from supporting the miners.
	www.socialistparty.org.uk /2004/336/pp5.htm (1375 words)

	GAUCHE
		Gordon Brown, for example, was very much anti-Trot as a student (he took a line on the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' work-in that was pretty close to the Communist Party's) and he was close to key Scottish CPers until the CP went under.
		Alan Johnson, Work and Pensions Secretary Says he was close to the Communist Party in his youth, and gets agitated if you suggest he might have been a Trot.
		But I can't quite work out how some of the "Trotskyists" managed to get into that camp.
	libsoc.blogspot.com /2004/11/new-labours-left-wing-past-paul.html (677 words)

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