The objectives of the campaign from its beginning were to keep the issue of those victimised miners to the forefront of the labour and trade union movement and to raise money to alleviate hardship among the families of the victimised. The Justice Campaign is supported by Labour Party and TUC conferences and many national and regional unions.
Victimisation Facts (1)
Statistics on victimisation by NUM Area
(numbers dismissed in the dispute)
- Cokemen 11
- COSA (NCB staff employees) 0
- Durham 150
- Kent 48
- Leicestershire 0
- Midlands 22
- North Derbyshire 76
- Northumberland 29
- North Wales 0
- North Western 2
- Nottingham 31
- Power Group 2
- Scotland 206
- South Derbyshire 0
- South Wales 74
- Yorkshire 306
Total 966
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The following died during the strike:-
- Joe Green died during picket duty. Ferry Bridge, Yorkshire
- Darren Holmes, aged 15, died picking coal. Yorkshire
- Paul Holmes, aged 14, died picking coal. Yorkshire
- David Jones died during picket duty. Ollerton, Notts
- Jimmy Jones died on his way to a picket. South Wales
- Terry Leaves died on his way to a picket. South Wales
- Mike Rice died in a safety accident. South Wales
- David Wilkie, died taking a miner back to work. South Wales
- Paul Womersley, aged 14, died picking coal. Yorkshire
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