1,500 in Closure Protest

The Week Vol. 7, No. 22, c. 1 June 1967 · pp. 14-15 of the scan · 77 words

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Nearly 1,500 engineéring workers marched through the centre of Oldham last weekend in protest against threatened redundancies at the Stone=Platt group of factories. One of the factories, Wallwork Gears, is to close down making 600 men jobless. Total redundancies could reach 1,000, Any closure of such an important engineering plant in this already hard-hit textiles belt would severely affect living standards in the area,

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