Support | Socialist Action 1983

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The Labour Party conference unanimously support for the Monktonhall strikers, with chair Sam McCluskie summing up the mood of total solidarity with the quip 'Anyone against this one? There's a gallows outside!' A delegate conference of Scottish miners agreed METAL BC OPENLYSUPPOR were threatened with th sack for "lack of effort' and a 'serious breach of contract reference to the NUM and despite their high output figures.

This bullying continued when, without consultation, the Board announced that every miner over 50 would be made redundant:

When the day shift The NUM has made the strike official - IC first time a local strike has been given national back. ing - - and financial donations are flooding in from around the British coalfield. A special NUM delegate conference will take place on consider steps to oppose aton jobs the MORE onktonhall (partial closure).

The increase since the last published list 3,870