Labour Herald rally — one of the fringe events at delivery of the writ which demands he appears in official.
We reproduce extracts of his speech here. The ruling class have encountered something they never thought they would encounter.
They thought that this which deliberately provoked annid ne over in tw three weeks. When Margaret Thatcher HUES speaks to the South Yorkshire constabulary. and explains that there will be no compromise, then I can tell her her gorerument that there will be so compromise on the central issue of pit closures The ruling class have seen the way our class has esponded to this attack.
We have seen their tear Danger together. It is a formidable force.
But it is coming against foridable force in history organised working The ruling class is in deep trouble. remember, they started wite moority op miners The majority miners NOT AlL well before the flying police pickets movWe have seen the consequences...
It is not the civil liber. ties of miners fighting for but the civil liberties of all. When they for miners today they'll CULIC for tomorrow...
We have seen the use of belicopters over our villages. The use of searchlights to attempt to spot pickets moving in the early hours. sell saturation policing even SOCiAlist Editor: ALAN FREEMAN last week ovecenoci editorials.
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unless accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope. At the meeting he gave his first response to the I have been told time after time to condemn violence. I know the facts. Just under 8,000 miners have been arrested. Three thousand jured. Two are on life support systems. Five have died for the right to work.
Inere is no way I will criticise these young women who have been fighting for They have used police, anti-union laws, judiciary, The state's intervention DeCe becoming increasingly hysterical.
At 4.30 today (Monday) High representative, with no delegates badge on, simply walked into the conference hall issued writ against Arthur Scargill seeking his commital Pentonville Prison on Thursday unless he purges his contempt in the High Court• If its contempt we're talking about I plead guilty. But the only 've committed is to fight Not only ArTor my class. thur Scargill, but the vice-president, the general secretary, the Yorkshire area general secretary and the Derbyshire general secretary have also received writs.
At the NUM special executive committee tonight the executive in full recognition that if we continued to call this strike official that we would be in
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court on Thursday. His charge - that he is in con- tempt of court in declaring the miners' strike is still