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Newcastle mass picketing gave some control over regular passenger and goods traffic.
Workers defence corps were established in Fife, Cheltenham and St. Pancras.
However at Willesden, Selby and Lincoln such bodies did not see themselves as in opposition to the police, and indeed operated closely with them.
This could not have continued for much longer, however, with police harassment rapidly increasing in the last days of the strike and with the entire Birmingham Emergency Committee arrested on Had the TUC leaders been serious about the strike and efforts to win it, they could have organised alternative food distribution through the cooperative society.
In a few cases, councils of action worked with these societies, but this was not actively pursued.
The issue of permits less direct way of obtaini control over the distributi of goods. . In many places the mor ment of scab vehicles w severely limited.
In Edinburgh lar numbers of them we impounded so the strike co mittee got near to being *practical control of the ro traffic' in the city.
The confusion caused Bevin and Thomas with th National Transport Comm tee meant that the perm
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