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Bathgate on strike
16 September 1974
A wage strike involving 450 clerical staff has ended after six weeks at the British Leyland truck and tractor factory in Bathgate, West Lothian. The men will be back at work today along with 4,500 shopfloor workers who were laid off during the stoppage.
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