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Clyde Shipbuilding | Jimmy Reid | Clydebank | Trade Unions | This Week | 1971

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'This Week' travel to Clydebank where 10% of the male workforce are unemployed and where the livelihoods of thousands more is at risk due to to the potential closure of its dockyards and the refusal of the Government to give any additional money.
Llew Gardner investigates

First shown: 08/07/1971
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16 Comments

@PaulEcosse 4 years ago

Jimmy Reid was the definition of a gentleman and a scholar.

@FloridaAlan 4 years ago

My grandparents worked on the ships in Glasgow 🚢

@Spookieham 4 years ago (edited)

Ships are still built in the upper Clyde but are entirely Warships and John Browns is long gone.

@Ariel1989-p7y 4 years ago

Thanks for posting

@jasonayres 4 years ago

(1:43) The working class brethren of Holland (-"That's in the Netherlands" -) sent telegrams of support.
To send money - hooray 🎉
To send goods -
Yippee 🎁.
To adopt your kids -
Hoo 🤔ah..
What?!

@regplasma7906 4 years ago

7.43 The 55 year old jobless fella who seems obsessed with being shot , ironically when he left Scotland , before returning , used to work in a Gun Shop.

@Spookieham 4 years ago (edited)

Jimmy Reid came from nothing and ended up respected by everyone no matter what side of politics they were on. He understood the dignity of labour and what a job meant to the social fabric of the area. A hero of mine despite having completely opposite politics.

@PaulEcosse 4 years ago

Check out the Parky episode with Jimmy and Kenneth Williams on here, you don't see telly like that anymore.

@NotNowNorah 4 years ago

Much appreciate this type of content, thanks

@johndonaldson3619 4 years ago

This was 50 years ago and everyone interviewed is dead now...I wonder how their lives turned out following this film...

@alanoneill3065 2 years ago

Sad times...the end of Heavy Industry...was inevitable?

@petercofrancesco8979 4 years ago

Does anybody ever remember Steptoe and son ... Harry and Dud . 🇬🇧

@noddyholder79 3 years ago

Reid wrote for The Sun FFS

@patriciaoreilly8907 4 years ago

When the working class was respected by Governments . Now 3rd world working rights & conditions 0 hours & so called Labour have done nothing to get rid of 0 hours slave labour .