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COAL DOLE AYFUTUR amnesty for victimized strikers is key during the next few weeks.
In its battle against the miners, the government was able to count on the "moderate" union chiefs to weaken the miners' leadership and strike. As Scargill put it, "The trade-union movement in Britain, with a few honorable exceptions, has left this union isolated. They have not carried out the TUC [Trade Union Congress] decisions-to their eternal shame."
The September 1984 national gathering of the TUC, roughly equivalent to the AFL-CIO of the United States, had voted overwhelmingly to support the miners. Yet despite this vote, truck drivers hauled scab coal and power-house workers burned scab coal. After some resistance, dock workers moved imported coal. So the NCB could boast they had coal stockpiles of 2 million