"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article om,
dennis@home wrote:
Take the miners. A hard and dangerous job. But they are easily
intimidated by a few militants.

I bet it would be easy to intimidate you, all they need do is chuck a
few bricks through your house windows, why would a miner care less about
his family than you (probably) do?

Not surprisingly you are missing the point.

Miners and others were said to be intimidated at a 'show of hands vote'
into voting for action they didn't want to, by a few militants. Hence the
need for a secret vote.

Or are you suggesting they knew they'd get a brick through their window if
they voted against?

Corse they did and secret ballots eliminated that possibility.