Central Lobby: 29.11.1984: Staffordshire Miners

Summary

Rob Whitehouse reports that tomorrow in Stoke on Trent the Labour leader Neil Kinnock and the NUM leader Arthur Scargill will share a stage at a miners rally at King's Hall.

Year:

1984

Duration:

0:03:30

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

Central Television

Master format:

16mm

Description

Whitehouse visits Staffordshire where most striking miners have returned to work and looks at the divisions between the miners and the Labour Party. Exterior and interior views (empty) of King’s Hall in Stoke where the rally will take place. Establishing shots of Lea Hall Colliery and Rugeley Power Station where two thirds of men are working. Interview with NUM branch secretary Tony Morris who recently left the Labour party over their lack of support for the strike. Exterior shots of the NUM headquarters in Stafford. Interview with Jim Colgan, Midlands Area Secretary of the NUM who thinks that the government is trying to break the unions and Margaret Thatcher is dividing the nation.


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