Building the Campaign | Socialist Action 1983

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TO BUILD for Miners rally and concert, sacked miners from Kent, Durham, Lancashire, and Nottingham have had a permanent office in the Greenwich DENNIS PENNINGTON, a sacked miner from Bold, reports on a week in the campaign's life.

BY THE end of last week requests for tickets for the Albert Hall concert on 2 March were arriving continuously at our Greenwich office, and at times we were hard pushed to cover all the evening meetings in London to which we have been invited to speak.

Last week we had a change over in our 'staff' and amongst our new faces all arriving in Greenwich were two good old lads (one aged 59, the other 56) who had been dismissed from their privately owned pit for refusing to cross picket lines. When employed, the coal at their pit by hand in the old style, the coal still being conveyed there by means of pony power!

These people certainly won the admiration of the younger lads because of their dedication to their union and their the Justice for continuing belief in the case for coal.

Saturday Tilmanstone to listen to Arthur Scargill address a meeting which was originally meant to be held in protest over the NCB's intention to close Tilmanstone rooms. colliery. However last week the Board gave the pit a reprieke (and no doubt they only intend it to be temporary) and the meeting ended up a celebration of the Kent miners' victory.

dent was in an ebullient mood and, despite the arctic weather conditions, the hall was full to capacity. He urged the Kent men and women not to rest on their laurels and against the Coal Board's tactics. also pointed out that the proving to be a failure; that according to figures from the Official Receiver in Sheffield, 86 per cent of British miners remain in the NUM, and applications for re-entry into the NUM these men won Mooding into the national headquaters.

to London in high spirits, ready to campaign even harder for the fulfillment of our demands for reinstatment and to ensure that the rally. and concert on 2 March will be a huge success.

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Socialist Action 28 February 1986