delegate from Warsop Main colliery, gave his view Socialist following the strike.
NORTH DERwe are in the Bosuol Wal people who broke the strike are in the majority. The strikers have got control of the union structures. Now we have to regain the backing of the men.
We have a real chance to get back our base especially from those men who went back since for personal reasons.
We have got to test the waters by facing up to inevitable confrontation with management.
These are already occuring through local issues over the imposition of a four ing time.
Men went back before the strike ended are taking these up perhaps to redeem themselves. By doing this they will again feel themselves of the While I understand the reason for calling off the ban disagree overtime with it. There's been no the ranks in Call general to take the ban off.
It just gives credence to Notts who have broken the national union's policy by ending the ban on their OWli It's wrong to think the coalboard will now soften up and negotiate in good faith. The coalboard have already indicated they will go to war. North Derbyshire Action of the situation in the NUM Whereas before Ine concilliation proceedure use they are was there to now saying TOT 'Where there is an alleged grievance we Will consider using the procedure.
There nothing to stop them future from breaking with what been sacrosalill Delore.
People think that we Call have the threat another overtime ban kept in reserve to use in future times SUCXL Hulullll but the board would launch Calludici for miners to ignore the ban viciously as LICH USL they would do now.
While we retain the ban on overtime it would give us that slight bit of dignity we need right now and I believe we could control it.
This would test the union out for the future battles we have to prepare for.
Sacked The levy should have been callea in the nist Instance just for those who have been sacked not to include money for those who sacked the future.
Some miners saw this as the first step towards establishment of future strike fund.
This got in the way of Johnny Moyle, sacked President Betteshanger NUM, Nicky Boyle (wife of a sacked miner), and Betty Heathfield (above) addressed the 2,000 people who marched through Sheffield the for the sacked miners and wasn't proper- Cast ly motivated I'm confident that the same miners WRO VOTed against national levy will come back for a loca levy as well as supporting the sacked miners voluntary basis.
Area by area we should. conduct our own raising of funds. There should be national co-ordination for re-instatement campaign against the glaring inconsistencies.
NOTLE verovsture men have been taken back who have been conviceca of criminal damage such as sinlasilllg the scab's windows.
But in Scotland miners accused of petty offences are sacked.
we should fight to have the precedents North Derbyshire applicable to Scotland. now getting fragmented ATed and branches arc turning inwards. Men who occalic aware of the national This awareness is ullull. now breaking up.
To counter this we should hold out with the on Saturday demanding an amnesty and reinstatement for all those miners imprisoned and sacked during the NUM dispute.
A leaflet distributed by the South Yorkshire Defence Campaign who called the march pointed out that managers were out to overtime ban, work to conference to kick out chae and call the special Notts area and to restructure the NUM areas Instead of affiliated bodies we want divisions the NUM centraily under the control on the national union.
We want to codify that sense of unity developed during the strike.
We do not have the luxury allowing the Notts scab leaders Lynk and Pendergast to carry on.
Like Spencer their leadership is self justify.
saying of them in Yorkshire. seek to justity their 12 seek justify their month scabbing we cannot wait fol time to prove them wrong, to wait for Lynk to fall Leicestershire.
lis so callea sare area 1s Bagworth. the day shift.
victimise more militants. Derek Law, manager of Silverwood colliery was quoted as 'We've got a faction of about 30-40 militants and this is an ideal time to sort them out'. 900 miners have been sacked so far. 300 down holes. By setting up a new Notts division with Notts alle those who refuse to follow Lynk will be stronger position to act as a truly national union.
MICK RICHMOND from the Leicestershire Dirty 30 told Socialist Action the state of the union in That has now been reversed to £l.2 million loss since November due to water damage. That's how vulnerable We still haven't got recognition from our union a This week the electricians went on strike on The official Callaghan asked one of the Dirty 30 to honour the strike after scabbing on us for 12 months and _Even so, we agreed.
The electricians on Now they're facing the result of their actions with own body? should you have to explain to men, to doctors or to anyone cise, wily you wan to do something?
Lorraine: There was strike in the social services in st Heens a town in Lancashire] because bloke leaked information about one of his clients. who was trying to get abortion, to one of thi pro-life groups.
We supported the strike. I think there should There should be more nurseries for under-fives SO that women can go out to work This strike has taught me a. lot. It's made more responsible it's taught me not to rely on men.
This strike has let the government know that miners will fight and tha people wont just lie down the walk all over them.
Reprinted from tional Viewpoint 25 Marc