Smiths Dock closure
- Title
- Smiths Dock closure
- Genre
- News report; Vox pop; Speech
- TX Date
- May 1986
- Year of production
- 1986
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- Duration
- 00:01:23
- Description
- Report on a mass rally in Middlesbrough, following the announcement of the closure of the Smiths Dock on Teesside (15/05/86), and union calls for a national dock strike. Includes vox pop with workers at the rally; speech by Bill Purvis, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (AUEW); piper and chanting. Male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Bill Purvis
- Keywords
- Trade unions; Strikes; Unemployment; Demonstrations; AUEW; Shipbuilding industry; Shipbuilding industry personnel; Smiths Dock; Middlesbrough; Teesside
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