shire area of the National Union of Mineworkers are having a much rougher ride than they expected in forming a breakaway union. break based on a huge disinformation campaign around the benefits delayed this has meant a pause for thought in many branches in the area.
stay in the National union. has requested ecutive. member of the branch and Secretary of the National Working Miners Committee. signatures of 10 per cent of the area membership on a pledge of allegiance to the National Union. Marwing leaders of the tinghamshire Area Council pushed thor campaign get rid of rule through the branch basis slanders Arthur Scargill National the members that Rule 51, the disciplinary rule, would be used against our area after the *arle was Ovel• They geared up their members for a short sharp of a split with the national But now the NUM delegate conference has been In Moor Green and Lindley miners have voted to At Pye Hill the branch a speaker from the National exThis is a slap in the teeth to Colin Clarke, a The South Notts strike committee have got the Derbyshire their policy should be sovereign.
The last thing the rightwing leaders in these three areas want their members, even LUCI working members, to realise is the real implications of such a split in the union The National Union of Mineworkers was established as a national ironically in Nottingham in 1944.
The constitution of the there strongly defended by the National executive because it allowed both for a unified National union ana ior area autonomy in matters related to the particular conditions in each working miners that uneH evely foll They that break-away three areas Dennis Skinner at miners' rally are working.
The response of the National Executive on 10 expulsion as the optise expulsion the entire Nottinghamshire because of the disloyalty of their leaders A special delegate conference has yet to implement that expulsion. Those Nottinghamshire miners who want to stay within the National Union using the breathing space to win the argument for maintaining allegiance to the National Union. NATIONAL UNION OF MINEWORKERS has been national of the Notthat there been threat against disciplinary rule was troduced the Notlast week unless this rise window.
The wants 'normal' be by the deadline of January. They for under 1984 Act.
MIKE COLLEY situaon the NUR members who have move coal refused to The board and the their tion unions, for 11-month sympathetic was without the 1984 Act But, always, has clear that National is expelling the tion' main with the National the TUC and in OUL that and the Labour Party will not recognise the new organisation.
The announcement by Coal trains must roll say BR provoking inThey risk a fighting BR, press internal to is putting case that defence jobs, coal will never its Very this the WOlICS have cient way BRB that using the in freight. have the to The this week that the beet Mr (Acting Treasure) NU unionism' will have sharply.
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