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Despite the killings the demonstrations continued.  Back at the barracks the soldiers were becoming increasingly angry at what had happened, and when their officer tried to force them back on to the streets again, they let their feelings known.  The Russian Revolution in Colour

 

 

They [the women strikers] threw some snowballs at the mens factories to get them out.  And when the men came out on the street, it became clear there was a very significant strike in the capital [Moscow].  Steve Smith, University of Essex

 

 

What the match-girls did next.   In July 1888, 1,400 women and girls walked out through the gates of the Bryant and May match factory here in Bow, East London.  Amanda Vickery, Suffragettes: Forever! The Story of Women and Power II, BBC 2015

 

Just what could be achieved with direct action: a new type of political protest was born.  Banner: National Federation of Women Workers.  ibid.

 

 

For Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher the steel strike epitomized all that was bad about the British economy.  Thatcher: The Downing Street Years I: Woman at War, BBC 1993

 

 

The [coal] strike became a battle between two implacable opponents.  Thatcher: The Downing Street Years II: Best of Enemies

 

She ordered the police to deal with Scargill’s flying pickets.  ibid.

 

 

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.  Jack London

 

 

At the front of the picket lines were the Italians.  The Italian Americans: Becoming Americans 1910-1930, PBS 2014

 

 

A charismatic, tough independent trade-union leader and former physician, Dr Dutta Samant, persuaded Bombay’s 250,000 textile workers to lay down their tools for an indefinite strike.  Misha Glenny, McMafia

 

The strike ended not in agreement, but with the virtual collapse of the textile industry.  ibid.

 

 

There should be guard-rails on all these machines – I’ve been saying so for ages.  The Angry Silence 1960 starring Richard Attenborough & Pier Angeli & Michael Craig & Bernard Lee & Geoffrey Keen & Laurence Naismith & Russell Napier & Alfred Burke & Brian Bedford & Brian Murray & Penelope Horner & Norman Bird & Oliver Reed & Alan Wicker et al, director Guy Green

 

You want a closed shop, don’t you?  ibid.  manager to union geezer

 

This is an unofficial strike.  ibid.  union meeting  

 

The whole thing’s a storm in a teacup.  ibid.  Attenborough

 

One man that’s all it needs – one man.  ibid.  bird to bloke

 

 

The teenager of the early seventies was made aware of the power of the unions.  Every Saturday night on BBC1, Mike Yarwood did an impression of Vic Feather, general secretary of the TUC.  The machinists in Mike Baldwin’s factory had a well-organized union, and the drivers from On the Buses ran rings around their inspector, Blakey.  The Strawbs had a top-ten hit with Part of the Union.  Cartoons in the The Sun portrayed union members as huge ugly hairy men with ‘union power’ on their t-shirts.  And every night on the news there was talk of a strike or what to do about the problem of strikes in general.  Mark Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful

 

Take the Mail on Sunday’s report on the 1998 strike of electricians at the Jubilee Line Extension.  ‘It’s the Winter of Discontent all over again’, it began, before describing strikers as ‘industrial gangsters’, ‘wreckers in donkey jackets and carrying placards’, ‘infiltrated by militant troublemakers’ and ‘surrounded by burly pickets’.  (How do you infiltrate electricians?  Do you hire a box of fuses and wander round muttering, ‘tut-tut, someone’s made a right mess of this’?  ibid.

 

The pictures were of hundreds of miners running down muddy banks to meet other miners.  From that moment, for hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of people, for at least a year and maybe for life, everything changed.

 

The pit-closure programme had been announced, and it was the final stage of the Ridley Plan.  It was the last scene of a predictable Western.  Along the way Thatcher had disposed of many casualties but now she stood face to face with her sworn enemy.  Arthur Scargill is often blamed for calling the strike at the end of winter, when coal stocks were high.  But the strike was in response to the closures.  ibid.

 

Scargill didn’t call the strike.  One of the pits due to close, Cortonwood in Yorkshire, walked out.  ibid.  

 

Tory outrage exploded.  The Sun called miners ‘scum of the Earth’.  Social security payments to miners’ families were blocked.  Ministers spewed disgust at pickets.  Adoption of the slogan ‘right to work’.  And the police blockaded pits in Nottingham, put roadblocks across striking pit villages and turned back Kent miners heading into the Dartmouth tunnel.  ibid.

 

 

In September 1995 nearly 500 Liverpool dockers were sacked.  Their fight for reinstatement has become one of the most important industrial disputes in Britain.  Yet it is scarcely reported, is largely ignored by politicians and is not officially recognised by the unions.  Ken Loach, The Flickering Flame, 1997

 

The story of the dockers is the story of a struggle for regular work, regular hours and regular pay.  Everyone has a fear of going back to the bad old days.  ibid.

 

They [employers] found a willing ally in Margaret Thatcher.  And in 1989 the National Dock Labour Scheme was abolished.  ibid.

 

The T&G had called off the strike everywhere else.  ibid.

 

The evils of casual labour began to reappear.  ibid.

 

329 dock workers were sacked for showing their solidarity with the Torside men.  ibid.

 

The dockers and their families are now up against it – real hardship.  ibid.

 

Women have got organised – Women of the Waterfront.  ibid.

 

There has been solidarity action from dockers in twenty-two countries.  ibid.

 

 

This was the battleground: here where we lived and worked is where we fought the enemy.  And for those of us who remain on the blacklist continue to fight.  A drab town with a population of over 100,000 where 61% of the houses are rented, 34% have no inside toilets … A battered landscape scarred by years of exploitation.  Ken Loach: The Wednesday Play: The Rank and File, BBC 1971

 

There hadn’t been a strike here for a hundred years.  And the union enjoyed the protection of a closed shop where contributions were automatically deducted from workers’ pay packets.  And meetings were as rare as a sunny day on a wet weekend.  Then it happened.  ibid.

 

A clown official from a bloody clown union.  ibid.  branch meeting

 

We’ve lost faith in you completely.  ibid.

 

But what do you do when those who are supposed to be leading the strike go out of their way to defeat it?  ibid.

 

The strike is unofficial.  ibid.  union official

 

That’s a reporter: they’ve had a meeting this morning of the management and the bloody union, and the management have offered three pounds and the union’s accepted it.  ibid.  strike committee member takes phone call

 

You’re not even entitled to hardship money.  ibid.  union official

 

The narrowing of immunities and the ending of the blanket immunity of trade unions from liability in tort provided employers with many more strategic options than they had previously had for breaking strike resistance, and these were put to effective use in particular disputes, such as the Wapping and Messenger disputes in the newspaper printing industry.  Simon Deakin & Gillian S Morris, Labour Law

 

 

Saint-Nazaire, May 1st 1967: End of the longest strike of the post-war in Sud-Aviation.  Grin Without a Cat aka The Base of the Air is Red, 1977

 

‘In Saint-Etienne, however, the CGT strikers shunned by their comrades from the other two unions take to counter-attack and attack the CRS with stones, screws and iron bars.’  ibid.  Newsreel October 1948

 

 

In most cultures where there are coal miners, middle-class people and above think they’re animals.  Literally.  And treat them that way.  The Mine Wars, PBS 2016

 

Strangers rarely found their way into the coal camps of West Virginia.  So when a matronly older woman walked into a camp one Fall morning in 1901 the local store keeper was curious … She was the notorious Mother Jones there to convince the coal miners in the region to join her union  United Mine Workers of America.  ibid.  

 

Miners in southern West-Virginia had been beaten down by the mine owners.  ibid.

 

The largest armed insurrection since the civil war … A blood-soaked war zone.  ibid. 

 

Nearly three quarters of a million men across the country spent ten or twelve hours a day in coal mines.  ibid.    

 

There were no elected officials, no independent police forces.  ibid.

 

They forced mining families to shop exclusively at the company store.  ibid.

 

Thousands of West Virginia miners decided to stand with the strikers in Pennsylvania and to fight for their own rights.  ibid.  

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