NOON F role of ex-officio members ot the nationa commitlee has occasioned a flood of resolutions in support ot the work done by people like Ann Scargill and Betty Heathfield. une North Yorkshire is typical. 'Recognising the loyalty of NUMAREAS CUMBERLAND DERBY DURHAM• KENT NORTHWESTERN • ITAL CAMPA nOR84 FO Women Against Pit Closures in conference last September implement the Darly Lull" ference policy of reinstatement for dimissed miners return of NUM second urges WAPC Io campaign to en sure recognition of the UDM is ulla the nonfully upheld by the Labour Pary. third resolution Notts calls on all WAPC groups lo support Notts women in their campaign to stop the spread of the brcakaway While a fourth calls on conference to remember the interna lional solidarity shown during the strike and to affiliate 1o the Anti Apartheid Movemeni.
Way forward
'Notts women have put forward resolutions on the way forward for WAPC said Pam Oldfield, Notts the national uc cyale committee. we wanl tc campaign around amnesty for the sacked miners and to make sure the union's funds are rembursed. And we must continue our overall CanDalell at all levels, against the closure 'Importan! 100 is the fight against tne vcakaway. This is a top priorițy Nolts. olher areas 100.
'Many areas don'i reause us ow careciou. the breakaway is. Il's nol just a matter of stopping any more lillicis joining the UDM. Even if not another single joined, the management ch æe æ davs as a stranglehold over the Hallal ullell "Sadly, the Party - and the TUC for that matter - have done NUM altre uele since the end of the strike. The electricians and ine posine are Lynl upe.
LYIIN need more publicity and a massive campaign movement against the breakaway.
'Inernational solidarity played a terrific role in the miners sunke. tallle WAPC 10 the Anti Apartheid Movement one way of showing how vallabe urose son ollIk. are lo us.
Women Against Pil Closures, however, aren't waiting till conference lake action. Natoally Iwo campaigns are already underway: in support of ed for use in the areas.
North Derbyshire Group for one has already set to work distributing them Thev handed leaflets ou al ai Xmas vigil in suppor of sacked miners Chesterfield's marke square.
"The original idea for a vigil came from the Barnsley group, Belly Heath field told us 'We want l0 encourage all the areas to do as much as they can 'And we have to get the monev in. not lust for the women's groups but families. It is more difficult lo come by now than it was during the strike. We know that other areas are working just a hard on this too. For mans families, it will take the next three or four years to get out of the debi that the strike crealed.
• Information Wo: men Against Pit Closures conference and donation:
contact: Kim Young, Women's Office National Mineworkers, James House, Vicar Lane, Shef field (phone: 0742 700388).
• All money collected for the NUM should be made pavable the 'Miners Solidarity Fund', .and sen 1o the NUM, at the above anoress Details for standing Coop Bank, orders: Account Ne sne fiel 30000009, BOnK Sorting Code 08-90-75.