Picketing at Yorkshire pits at end of miners strike

Title

Picketing at Yorkshire pits at end of miners strike

Genre

News report; Interview; Special

TX Date

5 Mar 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:02:57

Description

Report on the continuing picket line action at Yorkshire pits at the end of the miners’ strike. Includes chanting of pickets at Cortonwood Colliery, where the dispute began, and where picketing Kent miners are preventing the return to work, with comment from dismissed miner David Hemmings and NUM branch official Nick Clarke. Also NUM President Arthur Scargill on his refusal to cross the picket line at Barrow Colliery. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Arthur Scargill; Nick Clarke; David Hemmings

Keywords

Strikes; Labour disputes; Kent; Yorkshire; NUM; Coal miners; Coal mines; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Dismissal from employment; Strikes (events); Cortonwood Colliery; Barrow Colliery

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