Flying pickets return
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ıneir strike. Ine purpose of the "tiying The turning point in the strike came picket" is to stop all movement of coal with the "Battle of Saltley Gates" in by concentrating an overwhelming force Birmingham, Britain's second largest LONDON-The British miners' strike against pit closures currently dominates British political life. Ever since the strike started on March 12 of this year television screens and newspapers have been filled with pictures of pitched battles between miners and the police.
Once again workers are resorting to the tactic of the "flying picket" to win Interview with Kent miners: of miners drawn from all over the country against particular targets. In addition to pits that are still working, these targets include coal depots and seaports into which coal from the United States, Poland, and other countries is still being imported.
Such tactics have won victories for the miners in the past. In 1972 the miners confronted another Conservative government-led by Edward Heaththat was bent on destroying the unions. guard of the British working class.
Thatcher's plan had two elements. The first was to take on the nationalized inausırıes in a campaign to return ineir off to the oil monopolies.
laws and a modernized police force called on the rest of the union to supwing area.
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In nearly all the striking communities