Stop a coal!
Socialist Organiser1984 1984-04-04Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 5 →
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BY ROAD, rail or sea - all be halted.
The decision of the TGWU, the National Union of Seamen and the rail unions to instruct their members not to touch coal provides a vital means of pushing the miners' strike forward.
In particular it can provide the means for a breakthrough in Nottinghamshire by closing the 'merry-goround' system which links the pits to the power stations.
But despite setbacks this requires an intensification not uyug pences. tau viru nAl ATa unlestine of flarinm nintato Hood Affire Dows Hill, Warwickshire: miners arriving for work by coach meet police and pickets instructions are in themselves insufficient. They must be policed and deepened by miners on the ground.
Our job is not only to halt all movement of coal but to use this to take the argument into the power stations and explain to the workers there that the miners' struggle is their struggle and the struggle of every worker in Britain.
There is tremendous latent support in the wider movement. It must be mobilised.
The lies of the media must be answered. Even the yellow press, Mail on Sunday, publishes a poll which shnws that when "don't knows' and won't savs' are excluded 60% of miners want a national strike.
Every local Labour Party, every union branch, every stewards' committee must in the next few days put the miners' strike at the centre of all their activities.
*Victory to the miners! *Intensify the picketing! • *Boycott all coal movement! *Bring out the power stations! *TUC: call a 24 hour general strike!
Oroanise for an all-nut general strike.
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