AS DELEGATES to the Conference scoured around on Sunday for Labour's Campaigning for Fairer Britain they found bureaucracy had been a bit fairer to the DreS than to the delegates. There they were the lads from the Mail, Express, Sun etc passionalery interestea In campaigning for a fairer walking around with their copies of the document.
The delegates? Oh they had to wait until the next day. One kind press guy from a far-left paper guess which - meanwhile kept lending their press card out so nosey delegates could get clued up on Labour's newest policy statement. British coalfield.
161* mineworkers' union members.
In recent weeks these local actions hit the head15,000 miners HICS WILCI from 14 of the 15 Barnsley pits downed tools defence of a victimised worker. A WAVE of angry strikes is building up in the Last year, 185,000 striking miners were involved in 403 local disputes over productivity, bonuses and In the first six months of this year there were 179 similar stoppages, involving almost 20 per cent of The voluntary redundancies without consultation, imposed a new shift system.
Over years the NCB has picked off pits one by one, refusing to invest in new seams and using arguments about nonprofitability and coal exhaustion to sign the death warrant.
In this financial year alone, seven pits have shut and this could rise to 16 by the end of the year. Over the last five years 34,000 with another 1500 expected to go in 1983.