One vote STADS Gormley
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-01-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 16 →
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8 Middle Lane, Lond lon N8. Please make cheques payable to FIGHTING FOR As we go to press, the final figures of the NUM pay ballot are not known.
But the extensive leaked' figures from the supposedly secret poll suggest that the Executive has failed to secure the necessary 55 per cent for a strike vote.
What is known is that Jo Gormley has narront escaped a censure vote oi the union's executive fo his public attacks on thi strike call.
Yet probably more signi ficant than Gormley' article in the Daily Expres [for which he was paid a least £5001] was hi advance work in sabotagio! the strike against an offe which he long ag accepted.
He made no secret of thi fact that he deliberatel left talks in abeyance unti after the settlement of the BL claim, due at the san time as the NUM.
And the miners' vot proper also took place in the shadow of the officia betrayal of the Ford pa The miners are thus pay ing the price not simply for Gormley but for the bank ruptcy of the whole officia leadership of the unions.
A fuller analysis of the ballot result will appear ir next week's Socialis
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