Kent NUM members occupy NCB headquarters The ISTC are saying that they've made £20,000 donation to our strike fund. Well I thank them for that.
But I'd also like to remind them that the Kent VL.M with 2.500 members Fis.000 during the 1980 donation steel strike.
We also refused to allow any steel to come the pit. We also to allou scrap metal to be remored from the The DiCt stopped coming in held up the development of the pit. This retarded the growth of our pits and miners lost wages.
We received steel workers into the pit villages who were picket duty in Kent. We them, transported food, gave them office space, stopped work for a day to • By Tuesday works had cut off iron ore supplies.
Shirebrook had been cut by three quarters.
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Sheerness Whilst at Sheerness our members were beaten by the police and some were arrested and fined. So we feel offended when some steel workers decide not to support us now The main problem is hether I'm taking about never know Lianwern. They replied: «We know thai THIS WEEK the miners' strike really began to bite.
the blockade of Llanwern steel • The number of trains running from the Nottinghamshire coal field to the power stations via was taking widespread solidarity action for the South East day of action on After a drift round the time of the negotiations the NUM is taking the initiative back into its own Action asked JACK COLLINS, secretary of the Kent NUM, for his comments on the recent events in the strike, and the need for solidariBill Sirs or Sir Bill ... time will tell I suppose.
With regard to the Labour Party I have to thousandste between the thousands Party members who have rallied leaders like Roy Hattersley and Neil Kinnock. would say they're taking out hisul alle They're saying these things now so that in the future when they really want to action, but I'm also for extending that into days necessary weeks of action. We're calling on the rest of the labour movement to join us in this fight.
I'd like to remind everybody that the escala tion of the violence out on the picket lines is entirely TeSDOOS DULY of the police. Kent only sent six miners at tirst to each ni Leicestershire Staffs. The police stopped us at the Dartford tunnel.
When we arrived we found thousands of police greeted greponsible for the They're law breaking because they've been making the law up as they go along.
I have a letter in front of me now from Jack Jones complimenting the Kent miners on their Denavioli nirs weeks of the strike. Now ineponce alre knocking miners to the ground like ten bin bowling Dins police have caused the violence not the miners.
We need a lot more