'You can't always choose when to fight' | Socialist Action 1983

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La member of the Derbyshire Area Committee of the NUM explained their position to Socialist Action.

Ine Yorkshire flying pickets until after committee alca meeting on Monday March® Whether Derbyshire follows tinghamshire at this meeting going remains to be seen. I think they might.

Derbyshire has been consistently solid for the overtime ban, which shows commitment for the union's fight. It's a good way to keep us getting our shifts in, while putting the NCB in a position where it has to respond to us.

personally would have liked us to have put off the inevitable until later, when the coal stocks are lower after the summer perhaps. But you can't always choose when to fight.

I think the Yorkshire miners are great, but a lot of Derbyshire sent the fact that they are asher ta supe for them asked them own interests. This would be seen better if there was a clear call or all-out national strike. Pickets at Cadeby colliery in South Yorkshire

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Socialist Action 16 March 1984