Yorkshire, Scotland strikes back
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-09-22Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 16 →
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NEARLY 11,000 miners in the Barnsley coalfields are out on strike. The strike began two weeks ago at the Dodworth Colliery when George Marsh was saçked after 21 years at the pit for allegedly pushing • an overman: • All but two of the 16 pits in the coalfield are involved in the dispute.
The strike is in defiance of the regional NUM which defeated a motion from Dodworth calling for an all-out strike involving all the Yorkshire pits. The men were told to get back to work and the strike was made unofficial.
Flying pickets
NCB officials blame 'heavy illegal picketing", the flying pickets, for spreading the strike.
Up in Scotland, 1000 miners at the Monktonhall colliery are on strike. Miners were locked out atter a union meeting ran five minutes over time. When the men working down the pit heard about the lock-out they stopped work in support. Monktonhall seems to be on MacGregor's hit list.
Already the NCB is demanding voluntary redundancies. At a press conference • yesterday MacGregor threatened that the pit would be run down to "care and maintenance basis" if the strike was not over soon.
Mick McGahey, the Area President, is demanding that the strike be made official and for every NUM branch to give Monktonhall pit moral and financial support. MeGahey is looking to call an • emergency meeting of the Triple Alliance to discuss effective support action and take up an offer from the Scottish TUC to convene a "I met some wonderful people down there. It's a pity I'm going to have to sack them."
Fbu special conference for the Scottish labour movement the crisis in the pits. (Jes MACGREGOR TO VISIT COLLIERI