MORE THAN 600 mineworkers porters packed the main hall of Hucknall leisure centre in Notts last Saturday. They came to hear Arthur Scargill address the latest in series of meetings aimed at rallying support for the national union. Other speakers included Notts president Ray Chadburn and Anne Lilburn, Against Pit Closures. MICK ARCHER reports.
mounting, has taken letter all branch secretaries, dated August, mittee not arranging TOT Scargill.
Even general discussion branch ficials committee SHOL Nottingham area policy, locked out Blidworth because, into their description with It's atNotts Ray Chadburn against. the NUM. The focus on issue of ' •elena wages The effect predictable. Non-strikers were among those who snapped up leaflets for the meetings outside Hucknall and Linby pits and many of them turned VUL for the meeting.
and their suppresident Women In a detailed rebuttal of the arguments made by the splitters Scargill hammered these points home. He had come to Hucknall he explained 'to argue the not for the views of Arthur Scargill, nor the views of Ray Chadburn, but to argue the case for those who built this union, who created national organisation.' Listing the gains of the past struggles Scargill also spelt out the key issue confronting trade unionists today: the CASICICC of four and half million unemployed and the threat of further closures and redundancies confronting the mining and other industries.
•Without the unity of the union none of possibilities can become a reality,' 'Scargill argued.
But also stressed that this meant supporting all those fighting to defend jobs even where it inwho had strike the suppert thes support they deserved. in the case even more ob.
TelL Wan Drawing parallel between the attack on the coal and rail 3l1dustries he said thousands of guards. It's a first step in their campaign close down huge tions of the rall network Both they and the Tories wanting to see a cutback of major proportions.
"Then we will see the juggernaut trundling hrough our villages filled with coal rather than on a nationalised railway inThe NUR are involved in a battle for jobs and they are involyed in a battle to their hope that every single miner in every single coalfield in will agree with me when I say that when the NUR comes Tasks this for assistance we'll give them the same unswerving devoted assistance they gave us during the nationa The meeting obvious boost for all those campaigning against split in Notts. As Scargill finished by explaining 'this union was not built hult or the blood the sweat, the time, and Ine tears of miners in the 1920s and before who the only way of defending their rights as being the creation . of one national union. In their memory I ask you to stand up and be counted not only say that you will stay with th NUM but fighting for your union.
The message wasn't That's what has to be doe.
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