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AMONG the events leading to the Battle of Saltley Gate was a telephone call from the London headquarters of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) to the union’s Yorkshire area office in Barnsley.
The call was made on Saturday, February 5.
At the London end was an NUM staff member, researcher Jim Wheeler. At the Yorkshire end was a team of strike activists at the union’s Barnsley picket headquarters.
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