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作者：芦笛 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
嘿嘿，老马，我的记忆基本是正确的
芦笛
感谢赵夭先生给出的连接“1984年英国矿工罢工”，原文贴在下面，我记得的基本点不错，那罢工在理论上是非法的，因为领袖没有根据法律召开全部工会会员投票表决，被撒切尔政府抓住作为口实。即使如此，政府也就只敢采取了两个行动，第一，没收工会的资金(我记成了冻结他们的帐户，但原文是confiscated)， 第二，动用警力保护“工贼”上工。
原文在此，请马师弟仔细过目可有饿死人的事。只有一个的士司机让混凝土打死的事故，赖不到政府头上去。
By the late 1970s, a new industrial depression had started in South Wales.
Although the increase in the oil process in the mid-1970s made the future of coal
look secure, and showed that coal was still an important part of the nation's energy
needs, more pits began to be closed as did the factories that had brought
employment to the valleys in the 1970s. This caused a rise in unemployment.
People became increasingly concerned not only with the loss of jobs, but also the
effect that the unemployment would have on the mining communities as a whole.
This problem was not confined to South Wales however; it was nationwide problem.
Margaret Thatcher was trying to diminish the power of the unions and in 1984 the
National Coal Board declared it wished to close 20 pits with the loss of 20,000 jobs,
claiming that the deal made after the 1974 Miners' Strike was no longer valid. On the
12th March 1984, Arthur Scargill, President of the NUM, called a national strike
against the pit closures. Many miners were involved in picketing and protesting
including miners from 28 pits in the South Wales Coalfield. The strike was however
technically illegal as Arthur Scargill had not held a ballot of NUM members. The
failure to call a ballot led to the confiscation of NUM funds and enabled the police to
intervene to allow a handful of strike-breakers to go into work. This led to picket line
violence, particularly in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
There was much support for the strike in South Wales, although a taxi driver was
killed when a block of concrete was dropped on his car from a bridge, as he drove a
miner to work near Merthyr.
The miners wives played an enormous part in the strike. As well as appearing on the
picket lines alongside the men, hundreds of women turned up at rallies and marched
behind banners with slogans such as ‘Women Against Pit Closures’. They
organised events to support the striking miners' from jumble sales to sponsored
walks. They also organised food parcels and soup kitchens.
The strike lasted for nearly a year, but on the 3rd March 1985,a special NUM
conference was held and the miners realised that they had to concede defeat. They
returned to work two days later.
In July 1985, there were only 31 pits left in South Wales.
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嘿嘿，老马，我的记忆基本是正确的
