Defend NUM | Socialist Action 1983

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all know that it's the police that causing trouble.

We have got two miners in jail for offences on the picket lines. Terry French has been jailed for If the rest of the • trade union movement had leaders like Arthur Scargill, we wouldn't be in this position now. five years for an assault on Tarely has got three years police officer. Chris in a remand home for a similar offence.

These sentences were imposed on those lads on ine very same day tnal ine policeman who had assaulwite and put her into hospital was fined just £ 100 for his offence When consider these charges and see that these lads have been sentenced in the middle of an industrial dispute, they are in fact political prisoners.

We ought take action to ensure that these people are all taken out of jail let back into society where they belong.

The police activity has been stepped up since the 1974 They have