Who's behind the 'back to work movement'? | Socialist Action 1983

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journalist with oW! Compally who normally avoids making DUCH Ull his Thatcher/ Coal Board connections which could cause embarrassment. He is especially keen on playing down his MacGregor contacts.

But at Hobart House there is no such reticence and executives there say he has been instrumental in influencing MacGregor's thinking particularly in boosting the importance of the working miners, reports the Financial Times Yet another Conservative Party connection is David Negus, the solicitor to the National Working Miners' Committee. Dunng the Cover: Pa Coc. ference he was a prominent speaker for the Socie Conservative Lawyers A further strand in the web comes shape of a Mr Tim Bell, Mr 'Bell is a director of Saatchi and Saatchi, the advertising company which played a major role in persuading the electorate to vote Mrs Thatcher mto power Like Mr Hart, Mr Bell has regular contact =21T professionai fluence over lan MacGregor.

The 'back to work movement' taneous outburst It is a carefully mulicts organised financed campaign by the Tory Party and its allies. • Further details of Tory and right wing links to the can be found The Miner November and The Enemy Within published in the Kent coalfield.

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Socialist Action 23 November 1984