PROVIDES MARCHERS OWN SONG
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with some of the marchers and it clearly made a profound impression.
It's also given us our marching anthem. We have recorded the song 'Demand the Right to Work' and it will be sung in every town between here and London.
For its first mass performance you'll have to go to Longannet power station in Fifeshire tomorrow.
The miners who saw tonight's performance have taken copies and will try to get the picPAGE 4, Workers Press, Tuesday February 15, 1972 NOURIEST Series by Bernard Bernard Franks on Workers Rights
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