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tons after a year of the strike.
The TUC leadership, moreover, refused to step up mass picketing of the electric power plants, although this had been mandated by the Congress. In fact, Margaret Thatcher was able to announce to a Tory conference in London on March 9 that production in the power plants had risen by 2 percent during the course of the strike.
Labour Party polarized
In October 1984, when the NUM was fined 200,000 pounds for contempt of court, Labour Party head Neil Kinnock took the occasion to lash out at the NUM for "violence" on the picket line.
Kinnock is trying to build his base for the next parliamentary election. His statement was meant to reassure the most right-wing trade-union leaders that it is possible to peacefully accommodate themselves to the anti-labor "new reali-