Part of the Scottish Morning Star "Our Class, Our Culture" series of Scotland-wide events.
www.morningstaronline.co.uk
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
3rd September 2013
Sponsored by South Lanarks TUC
Chair: Stephen Smellie
Sponsored by South Lanarks TUC
Chair: Stephen Smellie
40th anniversary of the Chilean Coup
John
Keenan (Rolls Royce)
George Kerr (Yarrows)
Contributions and Discussion
MORNING STAR EVENTS AUTUMN 2013
GLASGOW
Tuesday 1 October: 40th anniversary
of the Chilean Coup
Poetry of Pablo Neruda
Ruben Romero
Chair Vicky Grandon
7.30 p.m. STUC 333 Woodside Road, Glasgow G3
FALKIRK
Tuesday 5 November
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Mark Lyon Deputy Chair Unite
Chair: Colin Finlay
Chair: Colin Finlay
7 p.m. Falkirk Football Stadium, Westfield FK2
9DX
PAISLEY
Tuesday 3 December
Helen Macfarlane: the Barrhead revolutionary who made the
first English translation of the Communist Manifesto in 1850
Brenda Aitchison Secretary Paisley TUC:
Chair Colin Mack
7 p.m. Paisley Town Hall
Report of the 2013 Conference for Morning Star Readers and Supporters Groups in Scotland
Read the PDF report here http://www.scottishcommunists.org.uk/docs/article/270/MorningStarReport2013.pdf .
Chair welcomed the broad attendance from readers and supporters
groups and from the trade union movement. The conference was
organisational. It was about how to increase the sales and profile of the paper and was the first to have been held. More readers were crucial for the paper’s survival, and even more important, for its development. This task could only be achieved on the ground through local groups, trade union branches and trades union councils all working together.
An immediate priority was to promote the Cooperative Stores half price
offer for new readers which ended very soon – at the end of June. But
the drive for readers must continue afterwards and match the urgency of the political situation. Working people faced a class onslaught.
The jobs massacre at RBS was an immediate example - as was tax dodging
by the big corporation at the same time as the government was robbing
the poorest and most vulnerable. Only the Star exposed the class character of these attacks.
Chair welcomed the broad attendance from readers and supporters
groups and from the trade union movement. The conference was
organisational. It was about how to increase the sales and profile of the paper and was the first to have been held. More readers were crucial for the paper’s survival, and even more important, for its development. This task could only be achieved on the ground through local groups, trade union branches and trades union councils all working together.
An immediate priority was to promote the Cooperative Stores half price
offer for new readers which ended very soon – at the end of June. But
the drive for readers must continue afterwards and match the urgency of the political situation. Working people faced a class onslaught.
The jobs massacre at RBS was an immediate example - as was tax dodging
by the big corporation at the same time as the government was robbing
the poorest and most vulnerable. Only the Star exposed the class character of these attacks.
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