ACTION MARS Court threat to NUM hands.
legal.
we ask the following question.
NUM have come under attack.
protecting the right to work!
tion.
Eight lead is necessary.
Emlyn Williams, president
and the leadership of the union.
THE EIGHT NUS. NUR, ASLEF, T&GWU MODEL RESOLUTION FOR UNIONS/CLP'S.
This union/CLP notes: 1) TUC policy of opposition to Tory anti-union legislation. 2) The use of that legislation by employers against the NGA and the South Wales NUM. 3) The action taken by Price and Waterhouse to cut off funds for food relief going to miners' families under that Urges: 1) The Labour Party and the TUC to set a date for 24-hour industrial action in protest at this unprecedented attack on the South Wales NUM and the British trade union 2) To call a National demonstration in South Wales to demonstrate solidarity with the miners and their families. PRICE AND Waterhouse have sequestered two relief funds in South Wales and f1 million of the Welsh NUM's money from an account in Jersey. Some £290,000 of the latter was donated to provide food and clothing for the families of striking miners. As Gwyn Williams secretary of one of the relief funds said: 'If the court intends to get its money by starving our kids, it will have a big fight on its And now, encouraged by this attack, two Yorkshire NUM members plan to take their union to court claiming the strike is ilFor those, like Neil Kinnock, who argue that trade unionists must stay within the law . When a law is as blatantly unjust as the Tory government's legislation must it still be obeyed? The Tory government is saying that trade unionists do not have the right to express solidarity with one another, to engage in 'secondary" action. Both the NGA and the Yet through every week of the miners' 21 week long strike with our money they have used their courts, their police, their government and the boards of their nationalised industries to break the miners' strike to defend jobs. And then Maggie Thatcher has the nerve to suggest she's They are now using this law to try and starve miners' families. Should they be allowed to get away with this? We say no. Now is the time to stop the talks and start taking acleading members of the TUC General Council met with the NUM last week to discuss winning support for the miners at the TUC Congress in September. But the attack has come now and the movement must respond now. In 1972 when the five Pentonville dockers were jailed under a previous Tory anti-union law, 250,000 workers struck without waiting for the union leaders. Now, because of the setbacks the movement has suffered over the past five years, a clearer The TUC must be forced to call action.
of the South Wales NUM, has called for a General Strike and a 24-hour general stoppage is the best way to begin to force the ruling class to step back. Those eight unions should be organising now to fight for such actions in the ranks UNIONS ARE: NUPE, NGA, SOGAT, ACTT,