VIDEO: Building a Strike from Scratch - The Clydebank Singers Factory Strike 1911

Part of the Scottish Morning Star "Our Class, Our Culture" series of Scotland-wide events.
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Dr Chik Collins takes us through the fascinating history of ordinary working class people in Clydebank organising themselves.
The Singers Factory was a huge employer of local people. They were world renown for their famous sewing machines. But at the turn of last century they treated their workers in an appauling fashion.
How did these workers organise themselves from a position where so few were unionised? What can we learn today from their heroic example?

VIDEO: How Clydeside workers stopped military supplies to the Chilean Junta

Recorded in EAST KILBRIDE Tuesday 3^rd September 2013  
Sponsored by South Lanarks TUC
Chair: Stephen Smellie 

40^th anniversary of the Chilean Coup 

9/11 40th anniversary of the Chilean Coup - Scottish arms workers help Chile by downing tools and refusing to work.

John Keenan (Rolls Royce) 

George Kerr (Yarrows)

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