Disputes follow NUM
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Ja-l (NUM, Dinnington Colliery) expect strong opposition, not only from the employers but also from Boyd and Duffy."
John Boyd, leader of the majority AUEW had recently published an article congrateasily lead to a return to work with promises but no concrete achievements.
Shouldn't the works committee educate the membership on the basis of "no return till no redundancies'? taken up as part of the tight for a workers' government.
A speaker from (owley stressed the need for the strikers to learn the lessons of the past period and he Edwardes OFF the past, to return to their old firm.
Long The pickets, who came out onginally over the victimisation of shop steward John Cunningham (no relation) have just received a donation of £50 from the Yorkshire Area National Union of Mineworkers and NUM branches are being circulated to get more money for them.
The dispute is officially backed by the AUEW District Committee and the dispute looks set for a long fight. The strikers are determined to carry on and fiancial support and blacking action are essențial.
Donations and messages of support to: Jewel Razors Strike Fund, c/o D.Brameld, 10, Parsons Cross Road, West Wadfleybridge, Sheffield 6.
ea SINCE the settlement of the miners' claim a whole series of disputes have erupted in the Yorkshire coalfields.
Askern Colliery in the Doncaster area, Brookhhouse and Manton in South Yorkshire have all had disputes in the last couple of weeks.
It looks like the National Coal Board has been encouraged by the ballot result to have a go at Yorkshire and a lot of pits are reporting disputes, often over quite niggardly and petty things.
Bonus payments are being cut back generally. Many pits are receiving less than £6 a week and some only £2. The Doncaster panel have shown the way to deal with this attack by the Coal Board.
They have pledged to bring out the whole Doncaster area over the dispute at Askern and it is about time the South Yorkshire panel took the same stand.
We can't allow the board to pick us off pit by pit.
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WHEN AND WHERE: The conference has been PUT BACK from the original date of March 6 • which turned out to clast with other commitments for many invited speakers - to Socialist Organiser, Thursday
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