te would crack down on picket much of the dar Wives A large contingent of steel wives Yorkshire declaring women's and carry a thre women hate scabs' They have come to challen Less Steel Workers wives isolate warch from the pickets. The ocal the Freedom Tory ES of steelworkers joined.
women's power!
wetk. The the pre ay that the Be its farmers all heip to bastain the hostility to the pickets in the prates police dar targets eren that ticular the 21 arrests during 14 are miners. They are take straight to court. Their fines total £1,750.
West try boycotts troduced picket. Their slogan: THURSDAY morning. presence on the picket lime after yesterday's mass stake-out Sheeruess Steel. The dozen or so who have •come Rotherham wear stickers declaring 'Hadfields massacre. 14.2.80. were there scop readsts they e failed reading they failed at Hadfields Morale is high.
The police are friendly today, offering to stop every approaching vehicle so that the pickets can speal to the drivers. 'We're on first name terins with the police here,' a striker comments. "Their idea is to soften us up.' For half an hour three of us are engaged in a discussion with middle-aged constable strike, the state of the steel industry in the. West, police brutality haven't seen any in 17 years in the force, the cop says).
The constable insists working cogs and that he doesn't like privilege in this society. acknowledges that in part what he protecting. He is told that's all he's protecting.
'But suppose there are 20 of you here and 200 of the workers come shouting "Fuck off°7 Well protec OLL OI URC plant you.' The pickets don't believe the A tokèn should bave that at first.
kind, arguing that the only peopl about the other strikers supporters. (1 police a free says Winton Campbell from IST he is Rotherham.
so that we ta be backing for this.
He assed, he adis more violence from the police. They ant to smash flying and seconda pickets, so that you, become impossible.
Rotherham the laws will mean maintaining al the action necessary to win the stee STEEL STRIKERS Winton Campbell (left) and David Motloch on the picket line at Sheerness on Thursday.
and other strikes. they can depend on for their defence just sit back and let these laws bi and their implemenied.
The government has giyen ti and to lay into u Tories 10 go.
Like el have eve laws essential supplies ffective strik They members to David Motloch, also from ISTC says that confronting strike "The TUC can't There's got be a They both consider that the steel strike is turning from a pay dispute into a fight over the cutbacks plants and jøbs. The general feeling they say, is that the government bas And the objective at Sheerne teel? The pickets aim to cut o such and oil to bring the plant to a balt.
want They Morts Union obey Evans instruction not to cross picket lines And they're waiting to see if the committees 'up "North' organise another mass picket.
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STEEL HORKERS
Geoffrey Sheridan reports Sheerness
police would do anything of the Sheerness Steel holds out against mass picket
CONTEMPT EVER
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