NOTTINGHAM The mood for strike is rising | Socialist Action 1983

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Throloniew the day before.

area banners.

said: "Our coalfield came into foot, too the jobs of miners all over Britain.

Henry Richardson, instead of being told what I'm supposed to say. miners must picket lines, and I want to raise my hat to those lads.

The march ther ly. Tony Benn told the rally:

for all of us strike. We must recognise and appreciate that.' Times showing 68 dav's Sunday favour of a strike, country and in Notts in particular. NOTTINGHAM, heart of resistance to the strike, was the scene of a massive show of solidarity last Saturday as 8000 miners, their families and other trade unionists marched.

• They were led by 30 Kent miners who had walked 200 miles from Kent, arriving in Nottingham They were followed by hundreds of local Notts miners who support the strike from most of the area's pits, led by branch banners from two of their most militant collieries Blidworth and Bolsover. Delegations from almost every other coalfield were present in large numbers behind their Addressing the rally Terry French of the Kent miners existence in the 30s when miners from many other coalfields in Britain came to Kent having been blackballed after the '26 strike. Many came on reversed this. We have walked 200 miles from Kent to sav •to travel any other way. We have now Secretary of Notts area NUM, said: 'It is about time I started talking about my principles Notts moved off to the Albert Hall where Jack Collins, Kent NUM, chaired an emotion-packed ral'Everything that the working class has ever got, it got through struggle. And that is the only way to hold on to what we have now, in the face of this Tory government. Every single member of the Labour Party should be giving the miners 100 per cent support. The miners are fighting Arthur Scargill speaking after a tremendous ovation said that the unity to win the strike was being achieved *I must point out to you that the two leaders from this area did vote for the motion in Sheffield in favour of the He then read out public opinion polls from the next per cent nationally in and very signincanly 44 pe. which would be double the figure for strike in the Notts ballot a few weeks ago. If that poll bears any relation to reality then the mood for strike is rising throughout the

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Socialist Action 20 April 1984