insurrection and insubordination'. been singled out for particularly vicious TOWARDS THE end of the miners strike Ian MacGregor promised the NUM that people would now discover the price of That promise is now being made to come true with MacGregor's statement to the parliamentary employment committee last Wednesday that the Coal Board would not reinstate those 670 miners who have been sacked as a result of their activities in support of union policy during the Arthur Scargill and other leaders of the NUM denounced these measures as 'vindictive justice, pointing out that Kent and Scotland had While 79 per cent of miners have been reinstated in South Wales not one had been given his job back in Scotland or Kent. The punishment in these areas is unrelated to the crimes committed. It corresponds instead to the objectives of the Coal Board. It is these two areas that pits have already been designated for
Socialist Action1985Socialist Action No. 104, 3 June 1985
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