behind it.
Four of the men came up last. Friday after their LISTOU was threatened if they continued There are still iwo -in the Central Stores.
The four who were pit all GOWn Ine nightshift face workers the Kagman seam That shift is known as a moderate lot. They get plenty of overtime and are well in with management TOtE verv shallow people who wanted to steal a hit of the limelight. They said they'd heen Shut that's ridiculons. hree of them are very big blokes. One of InCl. Jimmv Yates. was intimidate saving: 'You won't always have the police here to protect vou.
The media blew it up out of all proportion. When the Dail! Express reporter came up he said that it was the biggest put upejob he'd ever seen.
The NCB put them up to it. It is illegal to stay down a pit for more than 9 hours. When Monkton Hall staged a stay down on overume mne oa podu forced the men out of the pil ov sename ine ponce l0 HEM HEATH colliery is the pit where six miners were staging a sit-in against the miners' strike. ROB ANDERSON, who works there, told us what lay aare tore mote ree and HILCO another for the Hem Heath scabs Hem Heath stopped three weeks ago when the Yorkshire miners first came out. We were workzondav Dul went down the pit and persuaded the lads on my shift to stop. That had a snowball effect and hy Wednesday had stopped. They haven't drawn a cobble from here since then.
Florence, another North Statts pit, was stopped by last Thursday, ano une ares executive made it official South Staffs the trouble nou don't have enough liaison at any level ared South Wales miners put us Stanic. I hev' ve 20L minibuses organised, while we rely on our own cars and our own petrol. We'll need concerted mass pickets like Yorkshire to get all the pits shut.
The government is using the police as paramilitary force and playing it hard. The only way 1o respond is to do the same.
They'! find hard iail 200,000 miners.