EIGHTEEN MONTHS after the end of the miners strike the NUM is stil fighting for the reinstatement of 468 sacked miners. Six languish in jail. And that means the National Justice for Mineworkers Campaign still has a job of work on its hands. year's Trades Union Congress and Labour Party annual conference we will be holding fringe meetings to publicise the plight of victimised miners and organising an art exhibition to help raise money for them and their families.
In many cases the Coal Board is refusing to take in conciliation pall totally ignoring decisions of industrial tribunals. have a classic example of One of our members was alleged to have nit scab on 5 Nove 985 1984.
On 1985. six weeks after he'd returned to work, he was summarily dismissed sacked to this day.
Management claim he was sacked for gross the terms of his contract of emplovment. but when we tried for concilliation they retused to take part in the procedure because the contract employment was suspended wher went on strike. For the purposes of reinstatement the JUSTICE EMPANADO VORKERS SEPTO NOTE, COLKAN OF YE • CHESTER DARL At this Chair of the Justice for Mineworkers Campaign and General Secretary of the Durham Mechanics contract was oreacnea, Dul for punishment it was in We have managed get Durham Mechanics member reengaged but that means he loses all : his previous rights conditions in addition, of course, to having been without wages for particular man was involved A security guard came coal and set his alsation dog on one of them. In the scutile ensued my member made his escape, OTE. was caught police, whose evidence made plain that he wasn't The Coal Board kept him sacked for 14 months because he wouldn't give them the name of the other who escaped. That miner 1x months WaLe because of malice by the Board.
These sort of examples show what the NUM is up against in trying to get our victims reinstated. The Campaign gathering information the different Board areas in order cases.
In Scotland for exammovement's jinancial support.
There hundreds more examples of the Coal ed members are victims of LICIDES decimate the coal industry smash the National Union of Mineworkers and they still need the support of the labour movement as a whole.
Funds Although the receivership of the NUM's funds has been lifted, we've yet to Over 460 miners remain sacked, of which six are in jail — they and their families still need the whole labour get our money back. It is important movement that money is still needed. CLPs Over 400 organisations have alllialed Campaign. That includes a hell oi a lot o constituency Labour Parties and many trade unions which didn't necessarily support during dispute, that's very encouraging.
But the financial situation of our sacked and jailed members is worse now than ever it jority have fallen into the social seculil poverty trap The NUM's national solidarity TIMO needs your money more than ever. This vear's lUC and Labour Party conferences are an opportunity to show your determination to de fend the victims of the Thatcher government's attack on the unions.
the Justice for Mineworkers Campaign is: £50 per annum for national bodies, £25 for regional bodies, f5 for local ones applications for affiliation should be addressed to the Cam. paign Treasurer and sent Durham Mechanics Office, -LO The Avenue, Durham DHI 4ED.