days.
And indeed, the sheer scale of teted in Speration mounted Yorkshire over the last few day's protect tiny number was enough to provoke any section of trade unionists after months of hardship and hunger. To do so in South Yorkshire was a declaration of war.
So war broke out. In Dinnington miners went through the picket lines for the first time on Monday. Police sealed off the village. Pickets were attacked by police who tried to stop them getting to the gales. Dinnington police station was petrol bombed police were forced to flee. Police were siaiming that it was the work of unemployed rout in lue arca Cortonwood the one scab from last Friday, L'ae Lingard, 23. was *aned by toree orners on Monday morning proby huge police aperation. Range straight into picket =.0ie res. When police charged again and again into picket ines a barn was set on fire and the riot police were us'The chief constable should be an expert on ed. A roller was pushed down the road into police lines.
At Maltby pit two barricades were built and wire was streicned across the road when 13 scabs crossed picket Hajority of them were contractors who had been brought into all work al lne oil roll over the country. They had been laid off when the strike had started to cross picket LWO months ago when the first clashed broke out. The local police station was laid seige to and lamp posts were torn down.
Picket At Dodworth an unmanned police station was attacked on Sunday night. At Barrow trees were cut down and steel wire stretched across the road. At Redbrook the 1Uau was blocked. In South Kirby some 500 pickets outside the pit built barricades and bulldozers were moved onLo LIC 1vau Valley colliery had the electricity pylons surrounding it torn down. There were also clashes in Rossington and a large picket was attacked by police. A STATE of siege exists in South Yorkshire's minSenior police officers things like "how much do
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'THE MOST SEVERE violence yet seen' in the miner's strike was how the police described the revolt in the Yorkshire coalfields over the last few
violence,' was Arthur Scargill's immediate response on Radio 4, 'his police force and that of others have intimidated my members throughout the last 8 mon- ths in an almost unbelievable way. The very presence of police in massive numbers in villages, not only in Yorkshire, but throughout Britain has caused the problem'.