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It was an ordinary working day at the Rolls Royce plant in East Kilbride, near Glasgow. Until Bob Fulton, an engine inspector, who was checking part of an aircraft engine, looked at the label and discovered it came from Chile. This was March 1974, six months after the military coup led by General Pinochet. 听Four engines had been sent to East Kilbride for maintenance and, there and then, Bob decided they would not be worked on.听

The world had heard about the brutal Chilean coup, and Bob knew that many of the people being imprisoned and tortured were union men like himself. So the workers blacked the engines as an act of protest and international solidarity. Bob鈥檚 95 now and he鈥檚 just appeared in Nae Pasaran, a documentary about the story, made by a Chilean film director.听 I saw it before Christmas and it鈥檚 stayed with me for two reasons.

First because Bob and the other men who led the action believed passionately in their moral responsibility to support working people anywhere in the world. There was no difference in their minds between a man and woman on the streets of Chile, and themselves.

And second, because, in the film they discover the effect of their protest.听 At the time they simply did the thing they could; they didn鈥檛 know that Pinochet鈥檚 political prisoners in Chile heard what the Scottish workers had done, and took strength from it. And in the film, these surviving men say thank you.

Loving God, in this week of Prayer for Christian Unity, we ask your blessing on everyone working for peace and justice; may your grace be with those who cherish and support their fellow men and women. Amen

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