National Union of Mineworkers, put the squeeze on wage negotiations.
from the Tory attacks.
IT HAS been a particularly difficull aurumn for the Our bnzı for dismissed Hilicls 1 C" mains an injustice that we can't accep!
We are hoping lo give a hifi io that campaign eariy in the New Year, lobby Darilallcil. anu the introduction OI ine Campaisn moup by annasl ZVUD maller drawing the public's alten(1011 lo the inway WalC Narional Coai Board have deall with people dismissALTUMN 1985 HAS seen escalating attacks on the general secretary PETER HEATHFIELD told CAROL TURNER. Reinstatement for victimised members remains an unresolved injustice. The Board is using the UDM to And purging contempt hasn't yet brought control of the pursestrings back where it belongs. But it isn't all doom and gloom. Going into 1986, the NUM leadership remains as determined as ever to protect its members jorily have commitled no orlence wnatsoever. mnev Mac-Greg ois victims of altilude ur camiscu laboul The Coal Board, acting as recruiting agenıs for the UDM, alt DcHlle Dar ticularly difficull on wages. They are dragging oul negonanons as parl ol their strategy of suading *HIV V.
OVCl ¿ne UDM.
Significaniiy, they are having liule success.
There is a recognition that the promise of big pay be 'uifilled monev ian MacGregor projecied being available can only be achieved from big produclvily concessions. BuZ l0€ very fact that the UDM has accepled a wage settlemenl nal ls une lowesı li the mining industry for 12 places some sll allils us waen Wilt be deall with through normal negotiations.
Lynk and Prendergasi talk aboul 40,000 members now, bul a more altulalc about 29.000 figure They aimed would D 10 have 60,000 members before the end of the year, su nev ve tauen far short of thai particular objeclive.
In the post-1926 siluation, there were Spencerite organisations South Wales, olher •coalfields same now wilh the UDM Sadly, I think thai is inevilable in post-sirikı silllaliull Bui lan! thing 1o grasp is that the UDM is facing serious THE problems virtually collap: ed ir Lancasllle. While Agecrofi voted by majority 1o breakaway, they have •een oreverteo ron do so by the Lancashire There is some macauon tuala sosan tial number have rejoined In Daw Mill colliery, Warwickshire 100, in recent weeks, there has been a move back 1o the NUM South Derbyshire Iwo of the three pits have voled iclal ivval lu the NUM. That is very encouraging We substantial minority deep.
National in thal alca W Pr still receiving forms people who didn'i vole for us in the öob oæ coming back 1o the NUM So. il's hOraCOOM and gioom. They have cerlainiv crealed problems uL COVCCU ine nexı 10 eight moncan'l maintain the sort of struciure iț planned. The Talial certificale of registration will not malerially alter ne sauanon They will remain unac cepiable 10 the TUC to the Labour Partv. Then application for membership ef the Miners Interna tional Federation has been lurnea down decause Ine) are not a bona fide trade They still al c isolated and don'i see them making any in-roads thai : will alier their status in ne oroaer aou ac The Parly SnOODI forget Oo Noil the year 1984, 5000 tinghamshire hicls iracec ou orne bonica levy Thai indicates kind problem aDOB] uradt UNOT movemen had in the Notlinghamshire coalfield the would HODC lil di •Party rigidly applies constitution, N.U.M shouldn't be looking for hel -ouls SnouOn looking erode the authority of an organisa• tion atiiliaied to the TUC and the Labour Party Our financial problems Teman consiceraDie despite the fact that the sequestration order has been removed now the The purging of contempi doesn'i assure ¡ne tern or our Tunas. n process seeking reestablish Collol UVC our funds.
We still have to contend with the receiver, who is responsible in law for managing the financial af, He Is currently investigating our accounts with the coopera. tion ot our finance otticer. and remains unwilling 1o release monies for our norexpenailure He has said he expects to be with us for weeks but Hollls that doesn't mean a great deal H e has stituled the azalls Hallusa. ncias. ne torner rusees and is contemplaling action to make us personally resnonsible for the cost in curred. Thai inevitably lead 1o the three being made bankrupl and the repercussions of thal al c well known!
We are hoping 1o make application the by COUTS. SDDOTICU receiver oblain his removal, which ChaDic us lu Lustal running the NUM normalagain, bul the acute
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