SOLIDARITY ROUND-UP LANCASHIRE | Socialist Action 1983

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WHY were representatives Yorkshire miners sent away from Preston's Neil Kinnock rally last Friday!

wasn't the local Labour Party didn't want them on the platform. i he executive and the GMC had voted that representatives should be invited.

Preston CLP (personal capacity)

It wasn't because there wasn't Time speak. Len Brindle, local AUEW official, agreed to stand down for them.

All through the week in the run-up to the meeting the local treasurer, who WaN organising, the meeting, was placed under tremendous Walworth Road that would be unwise to have a miners' speaker.

By Thursday it finally settled that a miner would speak and the Vice President of the Yorkshire NUM was invited.

But ten minutes before the packed meeting was due to start an officer of the Regional Labour Party decided that no miner speak. 'We might lose the affiliation of the Lancashire NUM', he explained.

The miners were packed off back to Yorkshire And Neil Kinnock spoke at the meeting without the unwelcome intrusion