Mineworkers Defence Committee Date set for demo

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sense the mass picketing there came too late.

The NUM called on the rest of the trade union movement to support but we didn't get the same response as at Saltley.

There it was not the mass picket as such thal THE MINEWORKERS tion early in the new year. March -week to get their backing for the plan.

The meeting, which decided that it tas high, nas a very positive time activity in support of the NUM was stepped up. ANVI members there agreed with the proposa o go ahead with the plan for a on that date.

The recall conference date having been set for 9 February first issue of the committee's •uneu Black SUTTOn having been mailed out, the meeting came forward with a number of useful initiatives that solidarity activists will want to put in their diaries.

Women in the committee intend call solidarity COaference in London at the beginning of March.

Ine representatives

BLOC prope ed SODOV the TUC with the committee on 23 Jallav IO CarCOnDefence Committee meeting on Tuesday 8 January decided to push ahead with calling a labour movement demonstraThe date's been set - 9 - and members of the Campaign Group of MPs will be approaching the NUM over the next gress policies to be implemented. The committee agreed to bulld this lobby as long as the NUM endorsed it.

Jeremy Corbyn has aralted an appeal to the movement set special fund to replenish the NUM's funds in the face ot sequestration.

The meeting ended on an optimistic note when one member of the committee said that power cuts on Monday in Oxford Street, at Fords Dagenham and all over London were not simply due to 'breakdowns' They were obviously a sion to cynd pres . to irv ana preserve electricity because of the strain on the generators due to cold weather and low coal stocks. They were likely to recur next week.

The planning group for the solidarity will meet (pm on January in County Hall in Ken Liv ingstone's office.

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