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passport racist had said issue a Scargill conveyed passport was in Scargill went on 'makes this our into those reyes, those of our and sisters against their regime?
Scargill chronicled the appalling conditions facec South African walleri 'The coal, the old anc the diamonds the produce is stained with blood' he said, as he spoke of the 48,000 miners have have lost their lives in the industry this century, the daily violence faced by ordinary men and women.
'Union organisers
not allowed within a mile either of the camp or of the mine itself Namibian miners leader Ben Uulenga, had been rested immediately on his return from Britain He paid tribute to th miners who in the space of five short years had built such an outstanding trade Scargill said that ull. the decision of the South African miners to call their union the NUM after the British union was a striking confirmation of the principled course adopter by both organisations: of the historic strike of the British NUM in 1984-85 and of the historic strike of the South African NUM just concluded.
Arthur Scargill •said that the recent miners strike had given an indication of the real strength of LIC DON A COCOOC ' As the result that there can be no doubt that the South African NUM has gained in status both nationally and internationally' Scargill spoke lity the special responsibility the British labour movement because of the enormous £12 billion worth of British investments 'help KCCI a val Lice afloat' and he spoke of the importance of the international campaign to boycott Shell.
'You have to be op timistic and you have to have vision' Scargill said in arguing that mass action campaigns are effective, as the anti-missiles move. ment and the women at Greenham Common hac proved. 'By sanctions, we know we wil be speeding the day wher apartheid is confined the dustbin of history?
Scargill said that the demand for sanctions had to be backed up by trade action now. He cited the examples of the Liverpool who recently refused to handle Ne imagnient Dandes 'magnificent' strikers in pointing to the sort of action necessary 'Each step take, each decision that we make, each action that we undertake helps speed the day when our brother like Cyril Ramaphosa anc (NUM president) James Molas car appear on : platform like this withou naving to beg tor permission to travel from the country of their birth.
'It helps speed the day when we can have on this probadly greatest of our members albeit an member Nelson Mandela.'