Holding back in Notts
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Battlemuch "EVERY bicod! union supports us except our own", said one miner from Bolsover colliery.
Bolsorer is geographically in Derts shira, bur covered by the l:Es 17M. The pir has been on i: :* :0 ræk now. and =een Tom Bülsoner have staged an occupation of the Notts NUM headquarters to demand that they make the strike but they refused to do so.
At Cotgrave pit a minority of the miners have started a strike. The branch officials there, under orders from the Notts NUM, are on the whole not supporting the strike.
Solidarity from labour movement Nottingham south huwen's section from a disco in si Yorkshire miners. ham Trades Cour the broader is increasing.
raised £200 pport of the But Nottingcil • executive last week defeated a motion from a Socialist Organiser supporter to organise a support committee, as agreed by the full Trades Council the week before.
Communist Party members said that our job was to win over the Notts NUM executive.
And Don Concannon, Labour MP for Mansfield and the man who visited Bobby Sands just before he died to tell him that Labour would never grant political status, has said that the rail unions were too quick to give the miners support!
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• LaBour Northampton 'We'll win in the end' Ray Lane, AUEW convenor at LaBour, talked to Tim Pilsbury IN the past, before this present management took over we'd had quite good relations with management. But this Socialist Organiser no. 173. April 4 1984 Page Industri diges