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pickets' closed down the stations, 40,000 Birmingham engineering workers struck in solidarity, 11,000 Siley he picked bot to doll down Saltley depot. In all this innumerable acts against the law and the sovereignty of Parliament took рівос.
But as always it wasn't who had Parliament on their side but who had the power to win that decided things.
MP William Deedes openly admitted it when he said:
The crux at places like Saltley was not how the law was interpreted but how it could be enforced, It was not doubtful law but numbers which held he police back.
low things really are decided wa shown ever more clearly later in that sumuner of 1972. The due process of Parliament gave the government the right to put a stop to pickets and trade union actions. The National Industrial Relations Courts set Industrial Relations Act duly decided to put the law into effect, It ordered the imprisonment in Pentonville jail of five dockers engaged in secondary picketing.
The result was a gigantic explosion.
the morning of the workers began to move out on strike in dozens of industries. Fleet Street, car factories, the docks and construction sites were closing down. being overwhelmed by the tide the TUC ordered a 24 hour general strike.
Amid this opposition the sovereignty now. years, especially the relationship which existed power called the Official Solicitor the reicase of the dockers.
actions to ment never could Act had been broken.
He still had policy Jeadership overcame Parliamentary rule or not.
second miners openly feared a bigger under the break the strike.
suffered crushing arrests been gained.
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