NO COKE MUST MOVE! suffer a setback.
we go to press.
tion. to the Orgreave picker? Basically it ment to keep oroken.
Many the stocks and we kneir when they would take any scrap the agreemen!
a provocation. weeks we anything police escort right of call coalfield.
to this provocation?
First Friday but effect.
the spring work of every day.
were Notts, well as the coke plant.
about 8000 Notts, of the area. one day had prioritised plant.
Scargill call much unionists been the financial support. open the way to victory. What was the background was teraure agreeScunthorpe see works come on a care and maintenance basis was branches were first place because there were limited tn2 ran out BSC sepproductien How was this more seen by the Yorkshire miners?
It was quite clearly seen as had never seen moured convoys and huge the Yorkshire Do wilat was the respolise picket held at Scunthorpe on the Then the picke!: bull up al urgrease uncl bank holiday Arthur Scargill who was on the picket line On the Tuesday there about 8000 of us Derbys, Yorkshire. there was a massive police dred That was the one day that yorks area had prioritised On Tuesday there were of Derbys, as well as Yorkshire. But there was a massive police saturation That was the the Yorks area the coke was right to focus round Orgreave to draw in from the NUM and other wno nave looking for ways to help the miners, on top of DAVE PARRY, in this article, explains the problems that the NUM is faced with at Orgreave. He insists, and in our opinion correctly, that unless the pickets are increased on a really big scale the NƯ'M will This means bringing all the resources of the NUM behind the Orgreave pickets. Now the NUM has called for an all-out mobilisation on Wednesday — the day after Dave will be pleased about that and so is Socialist Action. It is the way to win. It must, however, not just be a one-day acIt must be repeated day after day and it must get the support of every single person who wants the NUM to win. Orgreave can DAVE PARRY is a member of the branch committee of the Thurcroft pit in Yorkshire. He has beer on the picket lines every day since the strike began.
JOHN KIRBY talked to him about the picket at Orgreave and what is happening in the strike.
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The is mobilise the have The negoulalvis priority negotiations Dace we But event. involved continual others There have been tew cuations where we have be ettective Wese decie 4...... 4..far have We desperately want a victory. could provide such a focus and give a boost to morale.
If Scargill's view is for a big mobinsanion inen wnal has happened?
the down Scargill was So On the the day after the big everybody pected to go to Orgreave and there was real disappointment when we were Scargill is all for a major effort at Orgreave but not in a position NUM without a call from Yorkshire the organisational capacity to make a much bigger effort which has not yet materialised.
only van be ma some o le leaders of our union the have over time neca lo slep the picketing and make it It's very dangerous to play the Grand Old Duke York game, demobilise the blokes who are looking for the opportunity to make Orgreave into a massive successful What is the situation today and how can the NUM win the battle for Orgreave?
Most people on the picket line accept that we are now operation. Some say it is a lo ine government. this to make this oke that the most expensive in the Building the picket up in a war Green Orgreave Poverticall the gauntlel all for were the Wednesthe We explanation lakel picketing.
whel taking the up holding embarassment wale to the numbers present at beginning needed. rank and file involvement ike me yorkshire Miners Forum that revive the strike began.
organisation we could then organise maceendent! In situations like ihis. 10 put pressure leadership to get the picker out up again.
salon itself, and not just orders Barnsley.
But support the position taken by Scargill mass picketing, on the national resources Ene resources of other unions, trades councils, Parties and so on.
The Battle of Orgreave what's wnal we need 15 we tried some me belie It we had built such an the We need more organon the picker line we really need to and prioritise drawing the
Socialist Action 8 June 1984