Coal not Dole!
Socialist Organiser1984 1984-04-04Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 9 →
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The government has also decided to develop the nuclear industry at the expense of the coal industry. In this case -unlike when it talks about coal - the government is not interested in the balance sheet. Nuclear power is more expensive, as well as more dangerous, than coal. The government is interested in using nuclear power to crush the NUM. Investment in computerised mining techniques must benefit miners. The micro-revolution must cut worktime not jobs. The situation where a man starts on a lad's wage and ends a lad's wage must end. Earnings must be protected. We must now take action on jobs and pits.
Both the Annual Conference in July and the Speciai Conference in October committed the union to oppose pit and works closures and all reductions in manpower.
This was backed up by the September NEC decision to organ. ise a national campaign against pit closures on an unprecedented scale.
The Special NEC meeting on 27 September made the Monk.