Miners strike - Silver Birch on intimidation
- Title
- Miners strike - Silver Birch on intimidation
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1984
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- Duration
- 00:06:37
- Description
- Nottinghamshire miners’ representative Chris Butcher (also known as Silver Birch) on the ongoing miners’ strike. He speaks of threats and intimidation experienced by working miners, and criticises the Labour Party for backing violent picketers. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Chris Butcher
- Keywords
- Trade unions; Labour Party; Strikes; Labour disputes; Miners; Violence; Kent; Arthur Scargill; NUM; Coal industry; Coal miners; Ballots; Coal Strike (1984-1985); Right to employment; Chris Butcher
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LBC/IRN, "Miners strike - Silver Birch on intimidation". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0012000316012 (Accessed 23 Jun 2025)