Drift back to the NUM | Socialist Action 1983

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UDM efforts to sink country.

Last South Derbyshire miners voted votes to join the UDM. The NUM have now WOR back a majority of the South Derbyshire miners. lus is no small achieve. ment as miners have had to lake an aclive step to rejoin the NUM and be iden tified by management for doing so.

On 10 January, 89 per cent of the miners at the North Wales Point of Ayr colliery voted to stay with THE MISNAMED Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM) got off to a shaky start in 1986.

roots outside its Nottinghamshire stronghold suffered set backs across the the NUM. Although only a third of the Point of Ayr miners joined the strike, a mere 68 voted for a split to Ine CD.I. berore ine vole 50 men who had previous• loined the UDM reloin. ed the NUM This followed a preChristmas rebuff to the UDM at the other North Wales colliery. During the strike, miners at the North Wales Bersham pit return-