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It's February 3rd, 1972, at the Keedby Power Station in Lincolnshire, England.

Outside the station, Freddie Matthews joined a group of miners

picketing the building's gates. Freddie is a coal miner from the nearby town of Don Kasser,

and like the other unionized workers protesting today, Freddie is on strike.

Across the country, miners are unhappy with their pay and working conditions,

but Britain's Prime Minister Ted Heath has resisted their calls for change,

so the miners have had to turn to new acts of defiance to gain leverage and voice their discontent.

Today, Freddie and his peers are here to block the delivery of coal to the power station.

Freddie stares at the local policeman guarding the power station's gates.

As he sizes them up, he hears the rumbling of a nearby vehicle.

Freddie watches the police step aside as the gates swing open for a truck carrying coal.

As the vehicle approaches, Freddie and his fellow miners spark to life,

shouting and berating the driver. Before the truck can make it to the open gates,

a walled defense of angry miners surround the vehicle.

But its driver refuses to succumb to the picketers' will.

He is a non-union member and has no interest in helping the miners.

He just wants to deliver the coal. He revs the truck's engine,

threatening to step on the gas if the picketers don't move.

As the police pull miners from the road, the truck driver tries to roll forward,

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