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man gets £45 a week and a single man *easonable standing of living and it That 3 the least we can do. In March the anemployment benefit runs out and we are talking about £100 a week each for 550 sacked miners.
What we have done up to now is remarkable, but that is a colossal task. From these figures I've worked out that we are talking about paying out in the region of f2% million a vear. Thai means we need f30-odd million on a return of capital basis The TUC and Labour Party must be asked to redouble their efforts to collect money for sacked miners.
The Justice for Mineworkers Campaign is organising a rally on 2 March - but the glory for the Heroes concert goes to Women Against Pit Closures who organised that. It was felt that the Justice for Mineworkers Bill being introduced in parliament on 27 February was a good time to keep the pot boiling. At the same time the Campaign group is publishing a Justice for Mineworkers pamphlet, which brings together aspects of the strike and is a synopsis of the problems which still exist. We will use this to get our message over.
But our campaign is about constant campaigning. If people get sick of the sight that's just the way it should be! No one should doubt it, our anti-victimisation campaign against the injustices that striking miners have sufered will go on until every single one is instated. Rooms Greenwich 01-858 7055 32 Woolwich Road councillors.
Suddick, WAPC, for The campaign aims are simple. Ann cooramalor or le heroe.
Durham delegate described them succinctly. 'There are two primary areas of our campaign,' she told us. "to win support the NUM resolutions passed , TUC and Labour Party conferences, and to fight for their implementation.
'The Justice for Mineworkers Campaign aims to highlight the plight of victimised miners and their families, and the situation of the union itself. We are here to offer help and to raise funds Thursday 27 February in defence of the NUM and the vic. timised miners. Any funds we raise are directed solely into the NUM's national solidarity fund.
At its recent national executive on 14 February, the NUM 'agreed to sup port the establishment of a national justice for mineworkers campaign'. Bill Etherington, himself a national executive member, has already raised the question or ollicial support for the Campaign. 'After the NUM November we agreed to broaden our horizons,' Bill told us. 'Obviously this fitted very well with the Justice Campaign, giving some credibility to what we wanted to do.
'I think that some sections of the union have been a little bit suspicious about someone doing what they regard ed as the union's job. But the NUM alone will not get all its sacked miners reinstated. We need the support of the broader movement. At no time has the Justice Campaign gone ahead with anything that the NUM doesn't support. I certainly wouldn't have anything to do with a campaign that did.
'AIl NUM areas will have the chance if they so desire for their officers to be part of honourary council. inal en sures that the NUM takes its rightful - at the head of any campaign against victimisation of its members The Justice for Mineworkers Campaign welcomes support and affiliation from all organisations who support its objectives. Future plans to build that support include fringe meetings at each of the forthcoming regional Labour Party conferences, jointly held with the Campaign group of MPs. The publication of the Campaign group pamphlet, Justice — out for the first time at the weekend - is a further effort to build that support and ensure the funds need ed to support for the victims of NCB and government policy keep rolling in.
• Affiliation the for Mineworkers Campaign is: £50 per anfor national bodies, £25 for regional bodies, and f5 for local ones. Donations and applications for affiliation should be addressd to the Campaign Treasurer and sent to: Durham Mechanics Office, The Avenue, Durham DHI tion on the campaign and its activites