"More valuable than gold" | Socialist Action 1983

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A miner's daughter at last August's Mines Not Missiles festival in Kent consider striking miners' children.

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They' ve Sacked M! Dad They're saclied m! dad you know Though he'd dosc nothing wrong Thes 're sected him cos he was on strike On trike for far too long Tee focad him innocent you know rodge was rather cross: • Tris aan ded sient and told his boss.

•hi's proved I did no wrong.

But yes he had, he'd been on strike C sinke for lar too long They' ve sacked my dad you know But I am proud of him.

Jayne Petney, 14, Vottinghamshire MA Z M d ma 'a ät =re Vainabie Tran GirIF YOU are beginning to think about (inexthe plethora literature from the mining communities that has come out of the strike. One such is More Valuable Than Gold, a book of writings by The book is a collection of poems, essays and drawings by children throughout the course of the strike, and all proceeds go to Women Against Pit should not have got the sack.' my father said, 52==… E itiner