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| | Tony Cliff: Patterns of mass strike (Part 2) |
 | | Meanwhile, the Kent miners had been deployed throughout the London area, and twenty-one power stations were under picket, as well as important coal depot at West Drayton, West Ham, Dagenham, Neasden and Fulham. |
 | | The picket had stood across the entrance to the station with their hands lifted up in a gesture to stop, but the lorries, escorted by cars, had driven straight at them and into the station, narrowly avoiding serious injury to the pickets. |
 | | Similar decisions at other power stations meant that the Tory government was facing a war on two front in the most vulnerable section of the industrial structure. |
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