If anyone ever has doubts about standing on the picket line, just remember:
Annie Beasant and the matchworkers Strike.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs.
Peterloo, Manchester 1819.
Kent State University.
Chicago Haymarket Martyrs.
The London Dockers.
The Liverpool Dockers.
The Kent Dockers.
The Yorkshire Miners.
The Lancashire Miners.
The Scottish Miners.
The Welsh Miners.
The Derbyshire Miners.
The Durham Miners.
The Northumberland Miners.
Glasgow 1919.
Liverpool 1911.
Soweto.
Tonypandy.
Barcelona.
Centralia.
Lawrence.
Ludlow.
Guernica.
Madrid.
Paris 1968.
Mexico 1968.
Buenaventura Durruti.
Rosa Parks.
Nicola Sacco.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Frank Little.
Joe Hill.
Wesley Everest.
Steve Biko.
And very many more.
We have a great tradition which no scab or boss could match.
The Industrial Workers of the World. The union whose members never scab!
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common."
Well I'm of to start my duty at the picket line have got camera so will have Photos this time.
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Been home over a hour,the gaffer got the registereds and recordeds and locked the gates.No strike breakers in our office yet.Time for a few hours kip before hitting the boozer
about 13 out of 50ish when in at our office, i was on the picket line from 5 until 8.45.at most there were only 7 of is. most passers by wished us well.