No. 59 25 May 1984 30p movement in Yorkshire Humberside did the right honourable thing. As workers, dockers, rail workers bus workers, joined with teachers local government employees supporting the miners they showed the government and the NCB can be defeated.
By their response to the call of the regional TUCs they also made it clear that they wanted nothing do with scabs like Len Murray, who is more interested in getting an ermine robe than in defending the jobs and conditions of working people.
The banner the Sheffield trades council spelt out the message that the striking and demonstrating workers wanted to make: 'Support the Miners — it's not just miners jobs they fighting for'. That's the message that must resound through the whole of the British labour movement. Not one more job should be sacrificed not one more workers must be tossed on the scrap heap.
It is the message that must be heard heeded by every trade member. The miners spearhead that fight for jobs and the right to a future. This is why there must be more Yorkshires Humbersides because they can mobilise millions of people behind the miners.
The TUC general council instead of keeping Silent about Murray's betrayal should denounce him and start building days of action in every region whilst planning a gigantic national day of solidarity with the miners.
Nothing less will do. If the right wing refuse to act then the left trade union leaders must call national action independent of the right.
Monday's day of action set the trade union movement on the right path now millions more must take the course NOU-TVI BRANCH CORTONHOOD MINCES AND TACE TRAILIES THANK THE PEOPLE OR - FIFLO Free Malcolm Pitt THE MINERS been been Malcolm Pitt The jailing of Kent miners President Malcolm Pitt is a disgrace. When they can't beat a strike any other way the bosses always turn to their tame stooges in the courts.
The last time they tried to break a strike through imprisonment was with the Shrewsbury pickets. That time round the whole labour movement rose up in anger, and the same must happen now.
The NCB and the government have failed to break the strike by any other means and so they are now relying more and more heavily on the police and the courts They failed to use the division with the Nottingham and other scabs to destroy the • They failed to mobilise women and families of the miners against the strike.
• They failed to ballot to overturn the decision to strike.
• The print unions stopped them using the popular press as a pattorm to sande the miners with no right of rep• The attempts to build a "back to work' movement in Yorkshire fell flat on its face.
Now all they have left is repression and starvation. The f15 a week cut in social security payments, balanced against non-existent strike pay, hasn't enough to starve the miners back to work. Now they propose to cul further £4 Many family receiving a food parcel!
And of course since the beginning of the strike they've stepping up the repres sion. They have used the police in a national military operation against pickets. They've changed the law de facto so that miners travelling along the public highway can be stopped and arrested on the grounds