General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

{{{ Intimidation }}}

In the 1980s a family friend who was a miner, was talking about the 1972 and 74 strikes, and he was talking about the new union legislation of the time forcing unions to hold secret ballots instead of having a show of hands, and he said that the problem was and not just in the mining industry, but in all industries, was that the union men and the militant rank and file knew which people did not want to go on strike, and so at a meeting they would place bully boys behind these people who did not want to go on strike, and when a show of hands was called for they would threaten workers by giving them a dig in their back and saying "put your hand up or we'll do you"