ARTHUR SCARGILL's call for 'the biggest nawidest possible support from the labour movement.
committee and every Labour Party should prepare now to send their members.
The Tories are getting ready reintorce 'thick blue line' which is. costing £2 million a day io SOD effective picketting. The movement must help the NUM to break this 'thick blue line', and to take the working class a giant step forward battle against the Tories.
The governell knows full well that the miners can stop Thatcher, and is well aware that its position is not safe. The reason for the huge police operation in Nottinghamshire is that they dare not USCi against the the NUM. laws The legislation which made the TUC turn tail run away Over the NGA dispute has had no effect the miners. The weakness of the Tories in this strike is obvious. The miners can win as long as ine rest or tne movement make sure they do.
Unfortunately, the labour leaders who have again and again refused to use the full strength of the once more showing their true colours. They are long on anti-Tory talk and short on action.
The people who sold out the NGA will also sell out the miners. Terry Duffy has publically attacked Scargill's tactics. George Henderson national officer of the TGWU's construction section has also disagreed with the flying picket tactics. Roy Hattersley has insisted on respect for the law. Bill Sirs openly advocates scabbing.
Such leaders would Every trade union branch, every shop stewards hand the Tories victory on Plate. hey have time and again demonstrated their ability snatch defeat from the jaws of any victory.
The answer to them and to the Tories is to Nottingham demonstration a resounsuccess. Yorkshire that the law can be defied. The police blockade can be broken. The Nottingham must turned into the kind of show of solidarity that made 'the battle of Saltley Gates' the crucual turning point In the 1972 And right to the fore in that march in Nottingham, should be Neil Kinnock, thus making clear that the Labour Party is with the miners and against Thatcher and her police thugs.
After Saltley Arthur Scargill said 'The events of today will go down in the the British working class movement as a nistoric day, waen nol just individual unions but British unionists decided had had enough of police brutality. They had had enough of intimidation by the police in obtaining passage through the picket line for scab they decide do something about it. We had a lesson in workers control. For the first time in many vears the workers of this land decided that the nation would be defied; that the state system would be defied, and the gates of Saltley would be closed.' The slogan now should be 'Make
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