solidariintalned In ust be intors in JEW and the essential features union legislation. That modelled on the fact that the general councii is to accept the Tory framework of law, TUC would like the removed - not general council is There will not be legislation.
in conessential framework of the While the 'centre' is - although of courso Its support will That is why, with the extremes in nothing yet' for SPEAKING AT a Labour Herald fringe meeting at the end of Tuesday's SCARGILL explained the full extent to which Tory anti-union laws had mineworkers' union. He said: PEOPLE TODAY were talking about the decision of congress. What was it, they said that made delegates their minds?
Because the predictions of the media had been that we woula lose wilen it cane lo the vote at the end of the dealer believe that the delegates at the congress today took into account that our people have suffered in an unparalleled way at the nanes one stale They recall that there were 60 of our members still prison. They recognise that nearly 700 of our people are still sacked as a result of the crime that they have been fighting for the right to retain theit job. They science do more than give support to policies which we had taken up on behalf of the entire labour and trade union movement.
were some wau suggested that to ask for a review of cases of those still in prison would either DATES the DOUI and cause an electoral problem, or certainly create difficulties because we were challenging the judicial system.
People who suggest these things must be joking. Anyone who went to the Orgreave trials has seen a of corruption the like of which haven't seen British courts for half a century.
We had police officers who took the witness box who were accused of forging film produced which showed that the film you saw on BBC had been changed round to convey a different picture. And we had officer after officer coming to adArthur Scargill being arrested at Orgreave mit that he wasn't telling the truth.
Our lads were on trial, charged with riot and facing a life sentence. They were facing court already heard Leon Brittan the then-Home Secretary, say that offences of this kind carry up life im prisonment. It was no joke for members of my union to stand in tnat court room and have to listen to fabricated evidence. The police lied in that court room.
When people talk to me about enquiries ther should be about what happener polic Orgreave, about violence on miners whe were fighting for their jobs My union has been thi subject of an attack the lik of which has never been see
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