Ravenscraig: "The Triple solid"
Socialist Organiser1984 1984-04-19Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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SPREAD THE STRIKE, STOP THE COAL' Thursday April 19, 11am Forresters pub, Division St, Sheffield (5 minutes walk from City Hall).
Speakers (in personal capacity):
Paul Whetton, secretary Bevercoates NUM, secretary, Notts Miners Rank and File Strike Committee, Rob Dawber, secretary Sheffield & Chesterfield District Council, NUR, Pat Lally, Socialist Organiser, Oxford Trades Council Executive. DESPITE picketing from three groups of workers from Clydebridge, BL and the NUM, at Ravenscraig Steelworks at Motherwell, the convenor of the Joint Shop Stewards Committee, Tommy Brennan, encourages the suppliers of coal to the works to ignore the pickets and continue to deliver.
Brennan has launched a personal crusade to save Ravenscraig from closure by trying to ensure that coal supplies continue to reach the plant even if delivered by scabs.
This the most recení nf Dermasainade,mnd. prove to George Younger Thatcher what a patriotic patriotic son he is.
He is supported by Bill Sirs and the ISTC leadership in his refusal to support the miners and other striking steelworkers. This, despite the fact that if the miners are defeated, the future of Ravenscraig could quite quickly be reviewed and Brennan, along with many other steelworkers, would find himself out of a job.
The Triple Alliance in Scotland must become solid, for only through solidarity can the miners and steelworkers win.
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