Two days before the miners were due to vote in a secret ballot on strike action, Mrs Jill Knight, MP, mace se snowa to manas of propse tae socia security should not be made available to wives and children, because it allowed the enemies of the state to to on strike.
Because this hos been uttered hy a hatehal and ridiculous woman who is rogarded by most people as a Tory extremist, we are likely to dismiss it as unworthy of comment. Therein lies the danger. For lawful right to strike are 'Enemies of the State", they are not going to enquire too deeply into the This is a version of the dehumanising techniques used to condition military recruits to the grisly boranes of killine and malmine other humar beings-they are induced to look on their victims as different, not fully human, just "Huns', Japs', 'chinks or "woes' In civilian society, in order to turn the public ana corn soreon ote population, Biry again dehumanise them. Only the names change now they are 'immigrants, coloureds, militants, "ex tremists, "Derrorists" or "Enemies of the State".
Let us not forget that at this moment prison Marion and Dolours Price. The authorities have of late resurrocted Lhis barbarous practice-condemned throughout the world to break the spirit of political prisoners on hunger strike. Given Tory statements to the cloct Elit virtusly overy suiko is balitically molated, we can be certain that any jailed piciet prison walls would be faced with the same revolting treatment.
Wittra few honourable exceptions, we citizens of what we sincerdy like lo Chink is Lie most humane dithout a murmur of protest. Does not this display of indifference give the Tories ample reason to believe that such barbarity can, it necessary, he inflicted an trade unsonists, provided that they can first he labelled 'Enemies of the State'?
Red Weekly 15 February 1974 Page 6
decided that a possibility existed for forcing a better deal.
Time diatoly they launched new projects-