Mr Jones rises to speak at the meeting surrounded by members of the Trades Council. Included among those at the front are Mrs Barbara Chadwick (incoming president, Burnley Trades Council), Mr Noble, Mr Park, Mr Keene and Mr Robinson (partly hidden by Mr Jones).
"Kill The Bill" said the 18ft long red and yellow banner at Sunday's (10th January 1971) mass protest meeting against the Government's Industrial Relations Bill, and trade unionists at the meeting firmly pledged their efforts to achieve this end. Main speaker Eric Heffer, MP for Liverpool's Walton constituency, was unable to attend the meeting at the Casino Club due to illness, but the other speakers - Burnley's MP Mr Dan Jones, Mr Allan Robinson (secretary of the local AEF branch), Mr Mike Noble (lecturer in industrial relations) and Mr Trevor Park (lecturer in industrial relations and former Labour MP for South-East Derbyshire) - spent two hours putting over to their audience what the Bill would mean to them.

Chairman Mr Harry Keene (area secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union) opened the meeting. The article includes the main points of each of the speakers' presentation. Very few hands in the audience of nearly 500 went up in opposition to the resolution when it was put to the vote, although there were several abstentions. The resolution, drawn up by the organisers of the meeting, Burnley Trades Council, was: - "That this meeting of trade union members firmly and totally reject the Government's Industrial Relations Bill and firmly resolves to call upon the whole of the Labour movement to unite in a constructive manner for the purpose of fully informing the people throughout this country of the dangerous implications inherent in the Bill, with the object of obtaining maximum support from all industrial workers through their union organisations in order to do everything within their power in every conceivable way to prevent the Bill becoming law." At the door a collection was taken to provide funds to organise further meetings in protest against the Bill.