PIPELINE DISPUTE | IMGpapers 1968

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THE MILITANT STRIKE by workers at the Turriff-Taylor site near Edinburgh has scored two important firsts".

It is the first time that the large Turriff-Taylor construction company has be the he on Screen mod FUELS marks the first major dispute on an oil pipeline contract for the North Sea oil project.

A few weeks ago there was a one-day strike for a threshold agreement which led to the successful unionisation of many of the workers. Then last Thursday, shortly after conced ing demands on safety conditions and facilities, management suddenly sacked 25 of the men, including all the stewards.

The reason given was 'necessary redundancies. But next day a coachload of tump labour, or a 'arip-squad" as they are known in Scotland, arrived to replace them. Seventy per cent of NICK LOCKHART DAVE EDMONDS Edinburgh IMG). hand-over-fist out of the exploitation of oil resources while they got away with iow pay and dangerous condit(members of strike committee and, Picket NEC at 8 Harewood Row, Saturday 3 August

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far as economic policy is concerned