Pressure | Socialist Action 1983

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A cemendous amount of pressure has been put the mes a blasley Drift, using American style tactics lo get peopie jobs, Caved in under this kind e Twenty three collully. have pressure before they ever got to the body. But the Kinsley miners, with the support of their wives, family, community have resisted the pressure. Morale To keep morale up at the pit we formed Kinsley Drift Community Action Group. We used leaflets, public meetings, and had a very successful march and rally. Two thousand local you take into account the social costs or evèn the real costs of redundancies, loss payments social security benefits to those who would thrown on the industrial scrap heap.

The arguments of the strike are more valid now even than in 1984 We need you to support us to help save Kinsley from the butchery the Coal We have had a campaign VOCO can hire the video or buy the video for f10.

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