{"id":7436,"date":"2015-04-20T05:46:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T10:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7436"},"modified":"2015-04-20T05:46:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T10:46:39","slug":"secret-papers-reveal-lawsons-1981-plot-to-use-army-against-oil-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7436","title":{"rendered":"Secret Papers Reveal Lawson&#8217;s 1981 Plot to Use Army Against Oil Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/desmog.uk\/2015\/04\/20\/secret-papers-reveal-lawson-s-1981-plot-use-army-against-oil-workers\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Papers Reveal Lawson&#8217;s 1981 Plot to Use Army Against Oil Workers<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lord Lawson asserts that his attack on climate change policy is motivated by deep concerns for the working classes \u2013 fears environmental measures will cost jobs and undermine\u00a0prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Environmentalists claim that Lawson is acting in the interests of the oil industry even if he is not directly funded by any oil\u00a0companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A secret government document published today after 34 years hidden in the archives provides new evidence that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/367954-nl-army-for-oil.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">Lawson when a cabinet minister<\/span><\/a>\u00a0acted in the interests of the oil companies \u2013 but not their\u00a0workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lawson proposed his top secret\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">LEADBURN<\/span>\u00a0plan to the Cabinet on 10 November 1981 which suggested declaring a national state of emergency within a week and confirmed 12,500 British troops had been placed on notice to move in order to keep fuel supplied and break a national\u00a0strike.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The document \u2013 released for the first time by\u00a0<i>DeSmog\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u2013 is marked \u201cconfidential\u201d and is headlined,\u00a0<i>Cabinet, Oil Tanker Drivers: Contingency Measures, Memorandum of the Secretary of State for Energy<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Fuel\u00a0Shortages<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Transport and General Workers Union (<span class=\"caps\">TGWU<\/span>) had called for an \u201call-out strike\u201d demanding an 11 percent pay rise for its members working for\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">BP<\/span>, Shell, Esso and\u00a0Texaco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A meeting of the Civil Contingencies Unit (<span class=\"caps\">CCU<\/span>) was called on 4 November with ministers agreeing \u201cpreliminary steps to bring forward plans to protect essential services from fuel\u00a0shortages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Papers Reveal Lawson&#8217;s 1981 Plot to Use Army Against Oil Workers Lord Lawson asserts that his attack on climate change policy is motivated by deep concerns for the working classes \u2013 fears environmental measures will cost jobs and undermine\u00a0prosperity. 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