Jimmy Reid delivering his speech to the UCS workers 1971
Jimmy Reid was one of the workers' leaders who gave a speech to the shipyard workers who supported the work-in. This important speech was filmed and used in many news reports in Britain and abroad.
"We are not going to strike. We are not even having a sit in strike. Nobody and nothing will come in and nothing will go out without our permission. And there will be no hooliganism, there will be no vandalism, there will be no bevvying because the world is watching us."