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February 1975: Three-month sit-in at Cammell Lairds

Keep Left for Saturday 30 August 1975 reported:

Merseyside Builders’ Jobs Fight - Police Move In

These pictures (below), taken outside the Cammell Laird shipyard at Birkenhead, Merseyside, show the stepping-up of state violence against the trade union movement.
The building workers on the picket line lost their jobs in February when contractors Peter Lind stopped construction in the shipyard, and since then have occupied the site.
Now they are picketing the gates, to stop scabs being brought in to complete their work.
Violence erupted last week when police moved in to break the picket and allow scabs through. Eleven of the men have appeared at court; and granted bail on condition that they stay half a mile from the site.
The Cammell Laird workers are fighting for their jobs in conditions where there are 79,700 unemployed on Merseyside, one in ten workers.

Police clear pickets from the path of a coach carrying scabs into Cammell Lairds

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