Sit-in Shepperton film studios

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CONNIE FAHEY (Wilmslow tenants' leader) ALAN PEERS (Young Socialists' national speakers FILM WORKERS at Shepperton, Middlesex, yesterday voted to occupy the studios if there is any attempt to break them up or force through redundancies.

A mass meeting of about 150 workers-members of the cinema technicians', • theatre employees' and electricians' unions-adopted a five-point programme including nationalization without compensation and under workers' control.

Lion International, which owns Shepperton, was bought for £5m earlier this year by asset-stripper John Bentley.

Recently Bentley's company, Barclay Securities, announced plans for the contraction of operations and 180 redundancies.

Yesterday's meeting opposed all redundancies, insisted that Shepperton and its 60-acre must be kept fully operational and called for its nationalization along with other studios in financial difficulties.

The studios must be used only for film production, the resolution said. No planning permission should be granted for property development.

Overwhelmingly, the meeting voted in favour of the principle that the studios should be occupied until these demands are met.

It also demanded that a mass meeting of the Federation of Film Unions be recalled to endorse these demands and pledge action to implement them. A previous FFU meeting turned down action on these lines.

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