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YANK'D Jack Collins, secretary of the Kent the on is leading a whole lot of challenges to the Thatcher government. The NUM is fighting to save jobs, pits and mining communities from the decimation that the aggressors want to impose.
Closing Cortonwood colliery only five days altel assulallcs were given that it would stay open was a provokation. part of the Tory plan to inflict a quick defeat on the miners using police intimidation press vilification and attempts to starve the miners back to work. It has talled.
The government getting, desperate while miners' morale is high, and solidarity is growing The latest figures show 8 per cent of miners out on Even areas w hich SUIC originally like the Staffordshire miners who came down to my constituenci recenti have come out Morale high because the miners can see that the government is rattled: the fact that thes won't give coalstock figures, that more and more imported oil is having to be burned in Hence OWC SLalIUIS the latest attempts to present Arthur Scargill doing a Nazi salute, and the of the riotous USC assembly charges.
Throughout all this stance non-interference has become ridiculous. MacGregor has slipped out of the pic ture. It's more and more obvious that he's doing the government's bidding (MP for Leyton)
grass rools leve. the constituencies ne ne ul l a vizway But there hasn't been enough support in parliament. The Labour front bench have shirked getting a proper debate on the dispute. There hasn't been one in the 10 weeks of the strike.
desperation the Campaign Group has tabled a resolution givıng full support to the NUM In its justified dispute saying we have no confidence in the governis ment's handling of it though deDalt unlikely because of the House of Commons' ridiculous rules. This has been supporiea Dy ovei 60 Labour MPs Campaign Group has made all the parliament. rulilll, We discuss the dispute at our weekly meetings, and regularly have miners along. We have Icaucis imposed a £5 a week levy members, ULI have successfully fought for the whole Parliamentary Labour Party to do likewise.
The fact is that the dispute escalating.
And the miners' determination is having its effect throughout whole labour movement.
Face use tenes ol example, coming out for their justified pay claim The original offer was inlNS uCI ay 1 1111 behind the 1974 levels o the Houghton Report They're suffering job Oxford Rally Cruise Missiles Return to sender Speakers, Pat Arrowsmith, Helen John, Ernie Roberts MP, Tracey Doyle (YCND), Chair: cllr Phyllis Starkey Wednesday 30 May 7.30pm Oxford Town Hail Organised by Oxford Reagan Reception Committee
Socialist Action 25 May 1984