gOWA NO NCU members demonstrate their opposition to strings during their strike earlier this year. LONDON TELECON POWER SIRINES LAST month, miners at Thoresby collery in North Notts staged their first lightning strike shite belore ult imposition of the overtime ban in 1983. The strike, over payments for working in we coots. rank and file UDM members and NUM men in action against management.
Attempts by UDM
NUM members from a calllecl RecuY IU discuss the strike resulted in an overwhelming majority of men walking out in disgust. NUM members at Thoresby regard this since as markig d FOR the second time within a year, supporters of the Conservative trade unionists organisation have sought to attack the union through legal Canes.
Last year, Alan Paul, a political adviser to the Tory local authority in Wakefield, complained unsuccessfully to the NALGO's method of electing its national executive.
Now Paul has upped the stakes. Along with a colleague, Simon Barron Fraser, he is seeking an injunction to prevent tne union proceeding with its "Make people matter campaign Their counsel is major step forward towards bringing rank and file miners i back into the unity of the national union.
Thoresby is part of a in which rank and file unity has begun to be reforged. • This growing strength of the national uno is aso renectcu f the industrial tribunal victories of Notts NUM leaders Paul Whetton and Mick McGinty, who were framed up and dismissed by British Coal for their union activities.
response to these gains new round of attacks on Votts NUM. They have so far failed to set Tories take NALGO to court Whetton and McGinty back to work, and they Council member Steve Abbot on another trumped up charge The local Justice for Mineworkers Campaign plans to make the issue the sacked miners a rally in Mansfield in the run-up to election day is being planned, and prominent national and local speakers are being invited At a recent 'Justice' rally in Kirkby some 400 Jules anu dules • WIVE heard Tony Benn , Peter Heathfield, Alan Meale and sacked Nottingham East PPC, , Sharon AlKIl, sptak In suppori of the sacked men.
over pay. last year. The