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÷b÷e|p  HISTORYFILE  BRITISHSOCIALHIS
TORY  THURSDAYSFROM
SEPTEMBER *  TMRO
ed to note the change in the transmissio
n time HISTORYFILE
 published in the first timetable and S
bject Leaflet sent to schools. #########
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#########################  NINEDAYSIN
MAY WMT
vistock    23, Repeat 30 October #######
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###########################  M
May 12th 1986.  A combination of drama a
nd archive film is 
specks of the General Strike in Birmingh
am.  Some 
the Trades Council Committee which organ
isjd 
d on its minute books and other 
rary sources.   B  TG
mint was relatively well prepared wi|c  
                                        
                                        
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÷b÷e|pth 86 local organisations 
ntial services.  The TUC, however, had m
adj few plans to avoid 
tivj and because they feared that left w
ing extremists 
ps.  Unions hastily set up local strike 
committees and in most towns the trade c
ouncil attempted to coordinate 
ugh a Council of Action.  TGS
kike was njvjr a complete stoppage.  The
 TUC called out 
pecially printers and transport workers 
on TMT
esponsj paralysed transport B
retain.  In Birmingham, both the City an
d Union Emergency C
ectically issuing permits for the collec
tion of 
f food.  In the streets there were 
oles between pickets and the transport u
ndjrtakings (making use at 
ate charabancs and lorries).  A unio|c  
                                        
                                        
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÷b÷e|pn car brought copies of TB
h Worker from London each day; the local
 (Consjrvativj) papers W
dnesday in mimeographed form.  T
e first kept to the side-lines.  By 8th 
bnd 9th May they were 
ainst pickets and active in arresting st
kike organisjrs. T
 May 12th; hard times lay ahead for the 
miners.  T
n the General Strike. Birmingham, howeve
r, 
uding, on the one hand, a tradition 
raft rather than industrial unionism and
, on the other, new industries 
assembling cars and making components) w
hich were advancing while 
le trades were in decline.   P
discuss'      
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neral Strike simply a struggle between t
sade 
                                        
                                        
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÷b÷e|p?  W
port and print workers a good choice for
 TUC
int of view?  S
e TUC called off the strike without gets
ing what 
injrs?   N
ve film history of The Motor Car, will b
e N              
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