IN THE debate on women the NUM speaker from feminists. We reproduce sections of his speech. •DON'T cheer too loud lads, you might be making a mistake... John Burroughs, Mineworkers, moving support for composites 58, 59 and resolution 12.
of being the comrades in this movement, their our female comrades in this movement, struggle for equality in society, and for positive action to extend their activity in the party not debtedness to our wives, daughters for their shoulder to shoulder struggle with our members while we are on strike, valuable as that obviously is. alone has awakened our women to political consciousness is only perpetrating the sort of patronis. ing attitude that we males have used throughout history. comment of David Basnett the other day: "Don't let them provoke us.' reasons. One, to show that people who haven't ex. perienced directly the picket line violence that the male and female members of my union experience shouldn't give advice. chauvinistic attitude of the British police force A senior police officer, speaking in a loud voice so that everyone could hear, said: 'You don't actually breed off of them cows, do you?' provoked into the sort of actions that sometimes you might see on television.
"The miners do not because of the miners' strike. action group in (nestermela directly as a result of this strike, but out of the by-election that successfully returned Tony Benn to Parliament. on the knocker and elsewhere, so effectively that they soom became labelled the 'A' team. That 'A' team campaigned on issues such as education, Their successes then are reflected in the ever increasing numbers of membership in Chesterfield at the present time.
tions. read the resolutions, act upon them, and support our sisters - 50 per cent of the population.
'Ignore them at your peril!' National Union of *I'm not doing this to experience the sensation because our inmothers, To assume that our struggle •I want to give an example in relation to the I want to do this for two Iwo, to demonstrate the 'A picket line in Derbyshire, jointly organised wives and mothers.
members are support this section In fact the women's was not formed 'They campaigned on the shopping precincts legislation. women coming into our "Conference, it's time to read these resoluFor the males to forget their natural bias,