tification Officer gave the go ahead for Roy Lynk the acting general secretary of the Notts NUM, to call his ballot for the breakaway, the NCB made an announcement it was granting fuli negotiating rights to the new organisation.
The obvious implica- show its hand because off tion in the management's the abject failure of that Lynk's local campaign. It significantly higher pay deal will be offered to the breakaway than to the national union. is a back handed recogniThese developments tion of the massive ground mark a new stage in ine gained by those loval fight against the split in the the NUM.
NUM. The NCB had to Just last week Lynk Duffy at his dirty tricks employers. In the period anti-trade netween 1979 union laws. 750,000 jobs were axed profits three-fold. Today the na- ceptance funding tionally agreed skilled rate They have engineers is a paltry to shop £96.20. stewards Duffy's col police laboration weakened the entire movement. Duffy was also He encouraged AUEW secretary the Labour Across official picket lines during the Isle mittee Translantic Set up in The AUEW leadership dic 1975, the Was Holly organise solidarity for the attache at American during their historic strike.
Duffy even went on TV to *closer say that it would be better if the miners didn't win. moveHe his friends ment Atlantic followed up the defeat was the miners by an offensive win the CULIC movement for active collaboration with the Tory Owen William was making a contemptuous comparison between the "modern media tactics'.. 0I nIs = 00,080 campaign and what he referred to as 'the outdated tactics of the 1920s and 1930s' being used by the NUM in printing leaflets and calling local Dudle meelings. But now the superscabs have changed tack Lynk's supporters have tried LO organise meetings in pit canteens. Colin Clarke, member of the area council, attemp ted to address one such meeting at sherwood pil, but abandoned it under a barrage embarassing Rodgers of the SDP. This relationship with ive contribution to the bosses, joined by prominent leaders of the electricians union.
Duffy and others in the AUEW leadership have been prepared to see organised split in the movement. cluding a split from the TUL itself.
There is only one effective reply to this challenge: offensive to mobilise vigorous counterthe entire movement against the Tory government. But Kinnock and TUC general secretary Norman Willis to capitulate stead.
Duffy's ghost was alive well at week's Labour Party in Bournemouth. than this Notts rule Lynk DU relita decided, fight is over though.
members continuing their selective strike action and refusal to cover for absent teachers They want a wage increase to restore the 34 per cent value years. Formulated ear's This claim, National of Teachers at special conference in September 1984, represents important step forward for the left in the union. It is the result of years of WOT' by the Socialist Teachers Socialist Workers and others.
The left successfully argued tor rate claim. They pushed for a Pay structure walen would unify teachers deal with the problems faced by the majority trapped on the lower scales, especially women teachers.
the leadership of the bosses package forward education secretary Keith Jospeh.
cash in return for agreement accept contract that seriously weaken conditions of LenT to this were proposals to atoscul compulsory, so staffing.
assessed regularly Tory education policies.
Teachers wielded a battle badly cover working proved.
NUT cond UWT.
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LAST WEEK the Coal Board played its trump card in the fight over the unity of the NUM in Notts. As soon as the government's Trade Union Cer-
by the