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Arthur Scargill: Saltley Gate was the proudest moment of my life
Fifty years ago today thousands of Birmingham workers united behind striking miners at the Battle of Saltley Gate. ARTHUR SCARGILL, who was there, talked to Morning Star reporter Peter Lazenby
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
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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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