NOTTINGHAM | Socialist Action 1983

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PICKETS travelling into Nottingham twindled last week as police successtully blocked the roads.

Inis has increased the on Nottingham HILDSUIC miners WHO Strike to go back to work. come miners on strike are being threatened WItH suspension their trade union branches. One area council delegate faces a motion or no connucace they refused because cross picket lines.

But pro-strike miners in Nottingham have begun organise. mobile picket nas been sel up Dy miners at Ollerton colliery to take over from pickets who are no longer able to get in. They are trying to ink up with other prostrike miners in the counIndependently of this 70 miners at Cotgrave colliery in South Notts walked off the job last Thursday night. Colin Atkins, the Cotgrave miners leading the action explained what happened:

'Ever since the ballot the atmosphere in the has been changing. the Notts miners are beginning to see unrough Tories' lies.

"The fact that the coal stocks are dwindling; the police violence they see on the lines and in the community; the fact that other trade unionists are coming to our aid and that other NUM areas have changed their minds and come out on strike - all these things combined to make the local miners see that they must make a stand.

Mood 'The mood Wa. building up in the last few

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Socialist Action 6 April 1984