APART FROM the usual attacks on strikers two other angles have been presented to the gossip merchants of Fleet Street. When they heard that one of the women was organising a petition to stop the Speke strike visions of Mrs Miller from Cowley sprang to mind.
The woman in Speke's case is Maureen Crooks who organised a lobby of parlament with seven other strikers" wives. Bur try as they might the media could not make her come out and denounce unions.
On the day of their lobby she said: We want the union to make the strike official with the TUC and we want the government to tell us where this factory stands.
She wasn't a supporter of the stike as such For her, making the strike official meant when the closure plans were announced she immediately called for a teturn lb work.
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