Labour conference - Miners strike and renationalisation

Title

Labour conference - Miners strike and renationalisation

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

4 Oct 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:03:28

Description

Richard Dallyn reports on the Labour Party conference in Liverpool with debate on miners’ strike following leader Arthur Scargill refusing to go to court over illegality of the strike, trade union legislation, and on renationalisation. With speeches from Tony Mulhearn, print union representative; Terry Thomas, miners leader from South Wales; Eddie Loyden Liverpool MP; Moss Evans, General Secretary TGWU; Ken Cure, Labour NEC; Suffolk delegate Roy Maddox.

Contributors

Moss Evans; Richard Dallyn; Tony Mulhearn; Terry Thomas; Edward Loyden; Roy Maddox; Ken Cure

Keywords

Politics; Trade unions; Labour Party; Strikes; Labour disputes; Margaret Thatcher; Conservative Party; Political conferences; Liverpool; Political parties; Conferences; NUM; Coal miners; Courts; Labour law; Legal decisions; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Law reform; Nationalization; BT; Strikes (events)

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