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celver which As which agreed January. general David in all these stations has his Purely get action.
Peter predictably nd that the Scargill in particular, should give a 'uneconomic' pits before was designed policy of refusing to give while the general council orts to getting the NUM to CB's case. where 50,000 tonnes of scab coal a day are being moved in, the workforce is split. Two shifts are hand!ing the coal, two are not. This situation 'could very easily be turned round by the TUC. It would simply be a matter of the general council appealing directly Yorkers to back the deci station sions of Congress.
Instead of steps to implement policy the actions of the general council aid the Tories, and encourage them to deeper process which led to the inell attacks. The appointment of a receiver to control the funds of the NUM was directly masterTories. They never have proceeded far had they not relied the general council to Riven by need does renege the Congress The result of this failure to act by the TUC is that the employers are pil ing on pressure against LIUSC LIUSC sections that taking solidarity action with the miners.
The British Rail Board is once again attempting to break the solidarity of the Coalville NUR members, and move coal from Bedworth Colliery. At Bold in Lancashire lave have been moving coal from the pithead to Meaford power station in Stoke-on-Trent.
Norman Willis claims to be within policy 'total support Arthur commented on Friday last, 'Instead of trying to talk to people like Walker the TUC should implementing their policy of industrial support for the miners in the dustries and power steel inThe TUC leaders, however, have a different project. They are hoping to break the NUM's deterisolation to scared find isolating Scargill presenting him as the main obstacle to a 'reasonable settlement'. As reasonable, presumably he ASLEF and NGA set tlements SO brilliantly negotiated by the TUC.
The right wing is now quite the o take greate control of strikes, and to lay down stringent conditions for any support it gives Alistair Graham stated in a major Guardian article on Friday that the TUC should not have sup. The union had agreed to had agreed to abide by TUC guidelines on picketing, and ment had been reached on what could be 'realistically achieved'. The TUC has to ensure, he argued, 'that the trade union movement is not : hijacked into support for a dispute as it has been on this occasion.' The TUC Conference was far from hijacked. It gave overwhelming support to the miners. Nor is 0000 the trade union movement isolated because valause of the The recent opinion poll in the sunda Times showed that 31 pe cent of the public suppor he miners against 44 per cent who oppose them. This figure could very easi ly be turned round if union leaders like Graham ceased to attack 'tremendous violence committed in the name of trade unionism' and denounced the police invasions of the Yorkshire pit villages of Armthorpe Fitzwilliam Hemsworth and Grimethorpe.
jacking the trade union movement. Congress gave a clear mandate to support te innels and to prevent the use of scab coal and oil. It is this policy which must be enforced by the TUC The latest issue of The Miner stated the case very clearly: "The legal moves against today tomorrow's cutting edge Sorry! He won't h meet anyone who won't condemn violence!
A chief constable? against the whole union and labour movement ... It is time for the whole trade labour movement to wake up and respond with maximum effort. There can be no bystanders any longer.
The prospects for Tory victory in this strike, as in so many before, rest the leaders flouting the will of the whole movement. They must be called to account. As The Miner put it, it is 'Time to Mobilise'.
The new year start with a renewed cam paign to build a national solidarity mobilise the whole movement the NUM and campaign of picketing at the power stations to secure support for policy. A national solidarity the NUM and a campaign for a recall TUC to defend and implement Congress policy Should be supportediners 12:84 Those people use vidlence.... but they condemn it!!
Excuse me while I condemn this brick which I am about to throw at you!
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He wouldn't meet Thatcher?? Reagan?